Arushi murder: Police hint at honour killing

Noida police said that the teenaged school girl Arushi could have been a victim of extreme passionate killing or an honour killing.

Six days after the twin murder, Noida police said that the teenaged school girl Arushi could have been a victim of extreme passionate killing or an honour killing, throwing open various possibilities behind her mysterious death along with domestic help Hemraj.

With the media spinning various theories about their killings, SSP (Noida) A Satheesh Ganesh addressed a press conference in which he said that Anmol, a friend of Arushi, was picked up on Thursday morning for questioning because the two had conducted 688 ‘transactions’ (either calls or SMSes) over their mobile phones between April one and May 15.

He said still it was not clear as to who died first though it could be said with certainty that Arushi could have been murdered between 1 am and 2 am of May 16 because her parents have said they all had dinner around 10 pm on the night of May 15.

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Her post mortem report had said she had undigested food in her stomach while the report on Hemraj had said he had 25 ml of liquid, an indication that he had not had dinner.

“There is very little evidence relating to motive behind the killings. It could be an honour killing or it may be (due to) extreme passionate attachment to a particular person,” Ganesh said.

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