Rajkumar out on bail, accuses CBI of torture:Aarushi case

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 11:37 am under India News, World News Rajkumar out on bail, accuses CBI of torture:Aarushi case

After being scolded by the court for not filing chargesheet in the Aarushi Talwar murder case, the CBI got another blow when the last accused in the case, Rajkumar was released on bail from the Dasna jail on Monday. After his release the 18-year-old former servant of Durranis, Talwar’s family friends, accused the investigating agency of torturing him.

Released last night, Rajkumar broke down on seeing his relatives, who had come to receive him. “It is as though I am a bird and I can fly again,” he said.

On being asked about CBI’s investigations he said, “Inspite of my requesting them to, the CBI never asked me about any missing mobiles or murder weapon, during my two narco tests. A CBI official showed me much of one of the two compact discs they made out of my tests. However, this did not have any reference to any mobiles or weapons. Even otherwise, they never asked me about any missing mobiles, but kept asking me to become an approver to frame Krishna and Mandal. The CBI wanted me to say, on camera, that Krishna and Vijay Mandal committed the murders. But, I refused.”

“At times they would stretch both my legs out on the sides, level with the ground, and two men would sit on each leg to keep them that way. “It was agonisingly painful,” he said. He also claimed that CBI officials would tell him, “We will throw you from the fifth floor and say you committed suicide. Trying to scare me was one of the ways they tried to pressurise me.”

A resident of Nepal, Rajkumar expressed his willingness to return to Kapilvastu. “Only after that will decide on what I should do with my life,” he said.