PTI
 
NOIDA, May 18: Even as police on Sunday groped about the identity of killer or killers of teenaged school girl Arushi Talwar and Nepalese domestic help Hemraj, their post-mortem reports said they were done to death in a similar manner using the same weapon and around the same time.

Police questioned a compounder of 14-year-old Arushi's dentist parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar and the son-in-law of Hemraj in connection with the double murder, sources said.

"Both of them were murdered in a similar manner using the same weapon at around same time," a senior police official here said.

The post mortem of Hemraj revealed that he had not consumed alcohol as alleged by police though liquor bottles were recovered from his room during investigations, the officials said.

Police has sent the vagina swab of Arushi, who was found murdered in her bedroom on Thursday to a laboratory here for testing if she was raped before her murder, the sources said.

Police is also questioning two other relatives of Hemraj besides "talking" to the parents of Arushi who was found murdered in her bed with her throat slit in her room on Thursday.

Hemraj was suspected to be behind the murder as he had gone "missing" but in a sensational twist to the case a retired police official found the servant's body from the terrace of the same house where the girl was murdered.

A day after Uttar Pradesh DGP Vikram Singh admitted to bungling in probe by local police, two officials Superintendent of Police Mahesh Kumar Mishra and Station House Officer of Sector 20 Police Station D R Nanoria were shifted and the state Task Force joined the probe by inspecting the residence of Talwars.