Gyan Varma

New Delhi: The month-long media vigil outside the house of Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, parents of 14-year-old Aarushi, has made life miserable for their neighbours.

Even though the cluster of houses at Jalvayu Vihar, Noida, has been cordoned off by the police, the residents are worried about reporters who loiter around their houses all day.

“We have no problem with the police or the CBI because they are doing their job and they don’t trouble us. It is the reporters who are a cause for concern,” retired colonel Rudra Pratap said.

“These news channels run 15 generators simultaneously all day and it makes a lot of noise. These reporters keep roaming around our gardens and looking around the house for no reason,” he said.

Aarushi was murdered on the night of May 15.

Even as the neighbours stand by the Talwars and understand their pain, they want the media to be a little more sensitive towards the family because “they have gone through a lot in the past one month”.

“Every time they (reporters) see any family member, they start chasing them. They block the road all day and create a ruckus around the cluster,” Gaurav Mathur, an engineering student, said.

Meanwhile, the CBI conducted a lie detector test on Raj Kumar, the servant of Anita Durani, who is a family friend of the Talwars.

Apart from Rajesh Talwar and his compounder Krishna, the agency has also made Nupur Talwar undergo a lie detector test after it found discrepancies in her statements. The sleuths are also interrogating Vijay Mandal, the domestic help of a neighbour.

Source : DNA