Talwar’s attacker blames his ‘emotional weakness’ for assault
January 26th, 2011 - 5:07 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) A day after attacking Rajesh Talwar, father of murdered teenager Arushi, his attacker Utsav Sharma Wednesday blamed his emotional weakness for the viscious assault.”You can call it my weakness, you can say I am emotionally weak,” Sharma, a man around 30 years in age, told reporters outside a Ghaziabad court.
“Talwar is wrong, so I attacked him,” he said. Sharma has been remanded in judicial custody till Feb 8.
Sharma belongs to Varanasi and was pursuing film production at Ahmedabad’s National Institute of Design (NID).
He attacked Talwar with a cleaver outside the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Tuesday in full view of hundreds of people.
The attack took place as Talwar was walking out of court after filing a protest petition against the CBI’s closure report on the Arushi murder case. Talwar has been admitted to a city hospital.
Aarushi, 14, was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents’ Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida, May 16, 2008. Their domestic help Hemraj was initially suspected for the killing, but his body was found on the flat’s terrace a day later.
Talwar was arrested soon after the murders, but was let off when investigators could not find evidence to nail him.
Sharma had also attacked Haryana’s tainted former police chief S.P.S. Rathore outside a Chandigarh court in February last year.
Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, was stabbed in the face three times by Sharma as he came out of the Chandigarh court premises.
A special CBI court held him responsible for molesting 15-year-old Ruchika in Panchkula town in August 1990. Ruchika committed suicide three years later.
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