New Delhi: The vaginal swabs of Aarushi Talwar, the Noida schoolgirl who was murdered at her home in May 2008, were substituted with samples from an unidentified woman, forensic experts have found.
Sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad found the swabs had been tampered with last year. Investigators cannot establish if Aarushi had been sexually assaulted because of the vaginal swabs being tampered with .
PTI quoting unnamed CBI sources said there was no semen (as alleged initially) in the slides sent to the centre and corroborative testing revealed that the material was not drawn from Arushi in the first place.
Dr Sunil Dohere, an Okhla based doctor had drawn vaginal swabs following Arushi's murder on May 15, 2008. The doctor reported that the swabs contained a white discharge, suggestive of seminal fluid.
But, Dr Dohere s senior, Dr S C Singhal, later said the slides prepared from the swabs had tested negative for semen.
"Regarding investigation in the murder case, we have to file a status report in Supreme Court. We cannot share anything in this connection as the matter is sub judice and is also under investigation," a CBI spokesperson said.
The case made headlines when Aarushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar was arrested by the Noida police in connection with the murder of the girl.
The CBI arrested three servants of the locality and had given a clean chit to Dr Talwar but could not file any charge-sheet in the case which led to their release on bail.
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