14-yr-old pens song for Aarushi, to upload it online on her b'day

Lucknow: She would have turned 22 after two days. Life, however, dealt a blow. Everything changed forever with her death. Even more tragic, her parents were accused, and convicted, of her murder. But the daughter, who is no more, seeks justice.As the infamous Noida double murder case remains pending before the Allahabad high court and Rajesh and Nupur Talwar serve time in the Dasna jail, another 14-year-old, a class 9 student of La Martiniere College, Chahat Malhotra, has penned an appeal on Aarushi's behalf in the hope that her parents finally get the time to cry their hearts out. Chahat's song is a prayer pleading with the legal system, with destiny, with God, to spare her parents the extreme agony, to absolve them, so that her soul rests in peace. She has sung it too and the video of the song, prepared by a social media based group 'Justice Now', has been uploaded on YouTube. The video will be made public on May 24, Aarushi's birth anniversary. "I had heard about the case and was touched. I felt that parents can never kill their own child. Then, I watched the movie Talvar, felt even more uncomfortable and tried to study the case. It was then that I thought of putting in my efforts," Chahat says, adding that she believes Aarushi's parents should get justice. "It's been eight years now and they are in jail. We know they are innocent. The case has been going in a different direction," said Chahat. The music enthusiast, who aspires to join the civil services, approached a studio in Lucknow to record the song, a prayer, and now hopes to revive the debate about the botched up investigations in the double-murder case. "We also plan to approach law colleges in the country to spread awareness about the case. On Tuesday, our group members will hold candle-light marches and pay floral tributes in various parts of the country including Delhi. Bengaluru and Guwahati," said group promoter Swati Bajpai, adding that supporters of the cause have planned an event in the US and UK as well. "We hope that justice prevails and that the case hearing is expedited," hopes Swati. The case had hogged limelight since May 16, 2008, when Aarushi was found dead on her bed. The very next day, the Talwars' domestic help Hemraj was found murdered on the terrace of Talwars' Jalvayu Vihar flat in Noida. "The investigations into the case were apparently not quite professional. From the press conference of the then Inspector General of Police (Meerut Range) Gurdarshan Singh introducing the honour killing concept, to the CBI, called in by the then UP chief minister Mayawati, finding that Talwars' compounder Krishna and two domestic helps Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal had a role to play in the murder, to then suddenly holding the Talwars guilty of the murder despite no clear evidence, the case got twisted into different dimensions," said Swati.