It was morning of 16th may 2008. Staff of sector 20 police station of Noida was awakening to a new dawn. Suddenly the phone ranged. It was a call from nearby Jalvayu Vihar situated in sector 25. It was reported to the cops that a teenage girl has been found murdered in her posh flat room. The deceased's name was reported Aarushi. This phone call initiated a sequence of events. Those events have now become chain reaction of nuclear fission type. It would be ironical but nation should dare to ask what it is costing the exchequer to solve what has been dubbed as biggest murder mystry of 2008. Start with UP Government's expenditure and move forward to count how much pennies CBI is spending every seconds since May 31st, 2008 of Central government. This is the money we have pooled by the way of paying various direct and indirect taxes. We have right to know. Because we are owners of exchequer and goverment is only trustee of it. We should ask how much money has been spent and how much more is needed to solve this double murder mystry. And there is one more question which must stir the minds of this nation's people. Is it worth it to spend so much hard earned money to solve a double murder mystry, because many a news channels are bragging various speculatives untruths about it. Because they are manipulating leads into theories. Because they are incessantly, beathlessly and needlessly asking questions to investigation agencies. Because they are demanding explantions from investigation officers and their higher ones. I pray almighty that sanity should prevail upon these questioning minds.
Now consider these facts.To conduct various tests upon accused Krishna 24 CBI sleuths went by air to Banglore and after spending three days returned by air to Delhi. There are a platoon of PAC, three Sub Inspectors, and 15 constables keeping continuous vigil at ill-fated Talwars' residence. Various departments and ministries of UP and Central government have done innumerable meetings to ponder over this muder mystry. Add to it countless visits and searches made by invetigating teams.
It costs public money to unearth the truth behind every crime and capture the criminal/criminals. We should not let the criminals go scott free because we as a nation can't afford money to hound them off behind bars. But there should be a cost stipulation for each and every case. Investigationg agencies should know their spending limits and try to work within it. Things may vary from case to case and a cost overrun can be afforded but that too only for exceptions like Aarushi case. Still, I believe that cost of investigating this mystry has overran several folds. This is high time a call should be taken to decide upon various cost structures of investigating crimes. This, I think, will make police and other investigating agencies somewhat accountable on front of expenditure if not bettering their record of solving cases.
