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“Talwars should sue U.P. police”

New Delhi: Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury on Saturday slammed the Uttar Pradesh police for “bungling” the Aarushi murder case and said the Talwar family should sue them.

“The family should sue the State police and those responsible for bungling the case terrifyingly must be suspended,” she said, a day after the CBI gave Aarushi’s father Rajesh Talwar a clean chit in the case. She also asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati “to stand up and compensate to Dr. Talwar’s family for the agony it went through.”

“The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister cannot ignore her responsibility. She must make the police accountable,” she told CNN-IBN news channel. “We have lost complete confidence in police...the way it provided salacious details about the young girl. The police assassinated characters, casts aspersions and tarnished the reputation of a minor young girl,” Ms. Chowdhury said.

Sympathising with Dr Talwar’s family, she asked, “Who empowered the police to ruin relations between two perfectly normal families [Talwar and his colleague Anita Durrani]. And how could police miss what was staring them in their eyes.”

“If this is how police conduct investigations,” She said, adding “nobody will ever come out to speak the truth and [this] is the biggest insecurity of today’s law-abiding citizen.” — PTI

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