Social class and murders in India

Here's an interesting article about class in India. In the "twin Noida murders" in New Delhi, a Nepali servant was immediately the suspect in the death of a well-to-do teenager. The servant was later discovered dead as well. The police then accused the father, allegedly because he was having an affair with a co-worker that was found out by his daughter and then the servant. The police have since let him go due to lack of evidence. Technology has played a role in this case:

Talwar was allegedly having an affair with a co-worker, the media reported. His daughter, 14, was said to have found out — police discovered that 50 calls had been placed to the co-worker from her cellphone. There was also speculation that Hemraj had discovered the affair.

But police now say there's no evidence against Talwar — he's been freed. And the attention paid to Aarushi's death — candlelight ceremonies and Facebook pages — has become cause for question, too.

Wrote Udayvir Singh Yadav wrote on an online youth publication called the Viewspaper: "Hemraj's murder seems so insignificant even though it is part of the same case. No one did a candlelight vigil. No one cared to go meet his family. Do we not care about him? We just presented a perfect model of the rich-poor divide."

India murders amplify social division | Seattle Times Newspaper