NO END IN SIGHT TO MURDER MYSTERY

Dentist couple, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were acquitted of the murder of their daughter, Aarushi, and domestic help, Hemraj by Allahabad HC

2008

May 16 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar found murdered inside the family’s L-32 Jalvayu Vihar residence in Noida; body of domestic help Hemraj found on terrace on May 17, 2008

May 23 Aarushi’s father Rajesh Talwar arrested

June 14 Talwar’s compounder Krishna Thadarai arrested

June 22: Raj Kumar — domestic help of Durranis, family friends of Talwars — arrested

June 11: Domestic help Vijay Mandal held. Rajesh released from Dasna jail

September: Raj Kumar, Krishna and Vijay Mandal granted bail

2010

December 29: SIT files closure report and lets off three domestic helps

2011

February 9: Special Judicial Magistrate Priti Singh takes cognizance of closure report and summons Talwars as accused

2012

January 6: Talwars move Allahabad HC and SC against summons, apex court orders resumption of trial

April 30: Nupur surrenders before CBI court on SC directions, denied bail, sent to Dasna jail September 25: Nupur

released from jail

May 25: Charges framed against Talwars for murder and destruction of evidence; Rajesh additionally charged with lodging misleading FIR

2013

November 25: Special CBI judge Shyam Lal holds the Talwar couple guilty on all charges

November 26: Rajesh and Nupur Talwar sentenced to life in prison by the special CBI court. Demand for capital sentence denied

2014

Jan 21: Talwars move the Allahabad High Court against the life sentence verdict by CBI court

2017

October 12: Allahabad High Court acquits Rajesh and Nupur Talwar