Ghaziabad: Nearly five-and-a-half years after the sensational killings of teenager Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj, a special CBI court pronounced Aarushi’s parents to be guilt on Monday November 25.
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of the murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar, were found guilty of double murder by the special CBI court in Ghaziabad. They were convicted under IPC section 302, section 201 and 34. Rajesh Talwar was also separately convicted under IPC section 203 for registering wrong FIR at Noida’s Sector 20 police station. The punishment will be announced on Tuesday November 26.
Advocate Naresh Yadav confirmed that the convicted couple were taken into custody and would be sent to Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail.
Special Judge S Lal, gave out a decision after a 15-month-long trial of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, on charges of murder and destruction of evidence in the killing of their 14-year-old daughter and servant on the intervening night of May 15-16, 2008 at their Jalvayu Vihar residence in Noida.
Earlier a CBI team under joint director Arun Kumar concluded that murders were allegedly committed by Krishna Thadarai- help at Talwar’s clinic, his friend Rajkumar– a domestic servant with Praful and Anita Durrani who were Talwars’ friends, and Vijay Mandal, driver of Talwars’ neighbour.
These findings were trashed by the then CBI director Ashwani Kumar who poked holes in the theory by underlining loopholes in the arguments given by Arun Kumar. In September 2009, Kumar constituted a new team under joint director Javeed Ahmed and the then SP Neelabh Kishore to look into the case afresh with freedom to choose their team members for the case.
After nearly a year of intense probe, the new team cleared the servants and hinted at the role of Rajesh Talwar on the basis of circumstantial evidence. The team filed a closure report in the case on December 29, 2010 citing “insufficient evidence” which was rejected by district magistrate Priti Singh who ordered that Talwars should stand trial in the case.
The Talwars had subsequently moved the Allahabad high court, which dismissed their pleas to quash the trial court summons and the proceedings initiated against them. The couple then approached the apex court but was denied relief.
The trial in the sensational murders started on June 11, 2012. The case went on for nearly one and a half year during which prosecution led by CBI’s deputy legal advisor R K Saini.
And today not only the media, but the common public too thronged outside the court, as the verdict was announced by the special Judge S Lal, who will be retiring soon. It is learnt that although the verdict has passed but many questions regarding the murder case are left without answers and aspects of the case would remain a mystery as there has been no confirmed recovery of the weapon of murder. Even the forensic evidences are incomplete.
