SC admits CBI plea against Talwars in Aarushi case

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the CBI’s appeal challenging acquittal of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the 2008 double murder case of their 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in Noida.

The apex court said the CBI’s appeal in Aarushi case will be heard along with plea filed by wife of Talwars’ domestic help Hemraj, who was also found killed in the next day, May 17.

The court has also issued notice to the dentist couple, who were freed in October last year after the Allahabad high court acquitted them, saying they could not be held guilty on the basis of the evidence on record, overturning their conviction by the CBI court and the life sentence, ending their nine-year ordeal.

In March this year, the CBI filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad high court order acquitting the Talwar couple in the double murder in their residence.

The CBI which took over the case on June 1, 2008, had initially described the double murder as a ‘blind case’. It submitted a closure report on December 29, 2008 giving a clean chit to servants, but pointing fingers at the parents.

On February 9, 2011, the trial court took cognisance of the CBI report and asked it to continue with prosecution charging Aarushi’s parents with murder and destruction of evidence.

On November 26, 2013, Rajesh and Nupur Tallwar were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad.

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