Post by Kal_1993 on Oct 17, 2017 11:22:33 GMT
Sunanda Pushkar
Indrani Mukherjee
Indrani Mukherjee
Gauri Lankesh
And recently Nupur Talwar...
Absolutely no justice to Durgas and Kalis of our times.
Sunanda Pushkar was brutally murdered. Indrani Mukherjea got entangled in a conspiracy and everyone declared her guilty without a chargesheet. Gauri Lankesh, though I don't agree with her ideology was an extremely good looking and a brave woman. Of course to good for this society.
And look what Nupur Talwar had to face:
www.newslaundry.com/blogs/aarushi-rajesh-nupur-talwars-rebecca
And recently Nupur Talwar...
Absolutely no justice to Durgas and Kalis of our times.
Sunanda Pushkar was brutally murdered. Indrani Mukherjea got entangled in a conspiracy and everyone declared her guilty without a chargesheet. Gauri Lankesh, though I don't agree with her ideology was an extremely good looking and a brave woman. Of course to good for this society.
And look what Nupur Talwar had to face:
www.newslaundry.com/blogs/aarushi-rajesh-nupur-talwars-rebecca
Did things change when the second CBI team began investigating the case?
The change of team brought them to their knees. Unlike the first team, this team was talking down to them a lot. It was a very confusing process for them because they were constantly being summoned and questioned. During questioning, they would find out about the evidence that the police were gathering. Whatever information they were getting was during this confrontation where they were being questioned. Slowly, they began realising what was happening. Within a couple of months, I also figured out that it wasn’t a typical rough investigation and there is something more to it.
Also, we easily understood the kind of cultural disconnect there was between the second CBI team and us. They were looking at mails, messages that Aarushi had written to Rajesh. They couldn’t understand why a child who stays in the same house wrote an email to her parents, they couldn’t understand something she’d written about a sleepover. AGL Kaul, the then Investigating Officer (IO), who passed away in 2014, kept saying “sleepover, sleepover” and gave it some bizarre sexual connotation.
What was Nupur like? She received a lot of attention after her NDTV interview. People accused her of being cold-hearted and questioned why she wasn’t crying.
Nupur is not the sort of woman who takes rubbish. She’s a very strong woman, or at least she used to be. I think she is less strong now. Her whole position was: “I haven’t done anything wrong. It is I who has been wronged so don’t talk to me like this.” She wasn’t going to stand any nonsense from anyone, not even the CBI. And I think the team hated her for that.
Especially coming from a woman?
Yes, absolutely. And between the two of them, she is the more outspoken one. I can imagine her looking Kaul in the eye and saying, “You’re talking crap and this is not what my daughter did. Kids Aarushi’s age had sleepovers and if you don’t understand it properly then it’s your job to find out.” And this is interesting because, in this very male world of investigating, they don’t like a woman who talks back. Nupur was chatting back, and I can tell you, they hated her with such a vengeance. I have overheard some of the comments they made during some of these Supreme Court hearings...
I actually have a lot of respect for Nupur. There was also this one incident, on January 25, 2011. Rajesh was attacked after we stepped out of the special CBI court premise, and Nupur and I were standing upstairs. We saw it happening. People keep saying she doesn’t react because she really just doesn’t. Even then, she had a stoic expression while I was more hysterical than her. I started telling her Rajesh is getting attacked but her mind had already raced ahead. She was thinking of hospitals, ambulance, media and all of that. I remember a colleague of mine saying that now the media will come and ask why she’s not crying. But Nupur is just like that! How do you decide that we must all behave in the same way and have the same kind of responses?
Again, is this demand to respond in a certain way more with women?
Yes, especially with women. And because they didn’t fit into some constructed idea of a distraught couple, particularly Nupur, they were very burdened by it. She was very weighed down by it. There were times when she used to be enraged and tell me “It’s my daughter. I am the one who lost her. Who the hell is anyone to tell me how to react?”
Why was the second CBI team so adamant on prosecuting the Talwars?
It was a lot of little things, like Nupur talking back, cultural differences. And maybe Kaul actually believed in his version of the story. Also, when you have this kind of public attention it results in lazy investigation. The investigator feels that there’s no need to crack the case because somebody else is doing the job.
The change of team brought them to their knees. Unlike the first team, this team was talking down to them a lot. It was a very confusing process for them because they were constantly being summoned and questioned. During questioning, they would find out about the evidence that the police were gathering. Whatever information they were getting was during this confrontation where they were being questioned. Slowly, they began realising what was happening. Within a couple of months, I also figured out that it wasn’t a typical rough investigation and there is something more to it.
Also, we easily understood the kind of cultural disconnect there was between the second CBI team and us. They were looking at mails, messages that Aarushi had written to Rajesh. They couldn’t understand why a child who stays in the same house wrote an email to her parents, they couldn’t understand something she’d written about a sleepover. AGL Kaul, the then Investigating Officer (IO), who passed away in 2014, kept saying “sleepover, sleepover” and gave it some bizarre sexual connotation.
What was Nupur like? She received a lot of attention after her NDTV interview. People accused her of being cold-hearted and questioned why she wasn’t crying.
Nupur is not the sort of woman who takes rubbish. She’s a very strong woman, or at least she used to be. I think she is less strong now. Her whole position was: “I haven’t done anything wrong. It is I who has been wronged so don’t talk to me like this.” She wasn’t going to stand any nonsense from anyone, not even the CBI. And I think the team hated her for that.
Especially coming from a woman?
Yes, absolutely. And between the two of them, she is the more outspoken one. I can imagine her looking Kaul in the eye and saying, “You’re talking crap and this is not what my daughter did. Kids Aarushi’s age had sleepovers and if you don’t understand it properly then it’s your job to find out.” And this is interesting because, in this very male world of investigating, they don’t like a woman who talks back. Nupur was chatting back, and I can tell you, they hated her with such a vengeance. I have overheard some of the comments they made during some of these Supreme Court hearings...
I actually have a lot of respect for Nupur. There was also this one incident, on January 25, 2011. Rajesh was attacked after we stepped out of the special CBI court premise, and Nupur and I were standing upstairs. We saw it happening. People keep saying she doesn’t react because she really just doesn’t. Even then, she had a stoic expression while I was more hysterical than her. I started telling her Rajesh is getting attacked but her mind had already raced ahead. She was thinking of hospitals, ambulance, media and all of that. I remember a colleague of mine saying that now the media will come and ask why she’s not crying. But Nupur is just like that! How do you decide that we must all behave in the same way and have the same kind of responses?
Again, is this demand to respond in a certain way more with women?
Yes, especially with women. And because they didn’t fit into some constructed idea of a distraught couple, particularly Nupur, they were very burdened by it. She was very weighed down by it. There were times when she used to be enraged and tell me “It’s my daughter. I am the one who lost her. Who the hell is anyone to tell me how to react?”
Why was the second CBI team so adamant on prosecuting the Talwars?
It was a lot of little things, like Nupur talking back, cultural differences. And maybe Kaul actually believed in his version of the story. Also, when you have this kind of public attention it results in lazy investigation. The investigator feels that there’s no need to crack the case because somebody else is doing the job.
