SC admits pleas against Talwars
CBI says the Allahabad HC had erred on many counts while acquitting couple
The Supreme Court on Monday admitted appeals filed by the CBI and Khumkala Banjade, the widow of Hemraj who was found dead on the terrace of the house of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in 2008.
A Bench, led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, took on board the separate appeals filed by the probe agency and Ms. Banjade against the acquittal of the Talwars by the Allahabad High Court in the double murders of their teenage daughter Aarushi and Hemraj, who was the family’s domestic help.
The CBI said the High Court had erred on many counts. The High Court had cleared the Talwars of any guilt or involvement in the crimes in a judgment delivered in October last year.
The court also set aside the life sentence awarded to the couple in November 2013 by the CBI court at Ghaziabad. Ms. Banjade had filed an appeal in December last year against the Talwars’ acquittal in the case. The CBI filed its appeal early in March this year.
The Talwars had already served four years of their life sentence in Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail.
Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit in her room in May 2008.
The needle of suspicion was initially trained on the 45-year-old Hemraj, who had gone missing, before his body was found on the terrace of the house
The Supreme Court on Monday admitted appeals filed by the CBI and Khumkala Banjade, the widow of Hemraj who was found dead on the terrace of the house of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in 2008.
A Bench, led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, took on board the separate appeals filed by the probe agency and Ms. Banjade against the acquittal of the Talwars by the Allahabad High Court in the double murders of their teenage daughter Aarushi and Hemraj, who was the family’s domestic help.
The CBI said the High Court had erred on many counts. The High Court had cleared the Talwars of any guilt or involvement in the crimes in a judgment delivered in October last year.
The court also set aside the life sentence awarded to the couple in November 2013 by the CBI court at Ghaziabad. Ms. Banjade had filed an appeal in December last year against the Talwars’ acquittal in the case. The CBI filed its appeal early in March this year.
The Talwars had already served four years of their life sentence in Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail.
Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit in her room in May 2008.
The needle of suspicion was initially trained on the 45-year-old Hemraj, who had gone missing, before his body was found on the terrace of the house