Aarushi Talwar Case: CBI files affidavit in SC

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in connection with murder of teenager Aarushi Talwar.

The apex court on Apr 15 had asked the CBI to file its response on Nupur and Rajesh Talwar petition for a stay in criminal proceedings against them in the twin murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in 2008.

Earlier on Mar 19, the Supreme Court stayed criminal proceedings against the parents of murdered teenager, saying there was no need for the couple to appear before a trial court on Mar 22 in a double murder case.

The dentist couple had earlier approached the Allahabad High Court but it refused to stay the proceedings before a special CBI court at Ghaziabad in the case, paving the way for their arrest.

The High Court had rejected the plea of Nupur and Rajesh Talwar for staying the summons by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad in connection with the girl and the help’s murder.

Aarushi and the Talwar’s help Hemraj were found murdered under mysterious circumstances in May 2008.

The Allahabad High Court asked Nupur Talwar to appear before it in two weeks’ time and apply for bail.

Rajesh Talwar, who had filed a separate petition, was also asked to apply for bail.

The same Court had earlier heard of a petition against arrest warrant by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the double murder case.

On Feb 9, the special CBI court ordered the trial of the doctor couple.

While the CBI had all along maintained that Rajesh was the only suspect though he could not be implicated due to lack of substantial evidence, Nupur?s name as an accused has emerged for the first time recently.

The duo were accused under sections 302 (murder), 201 (destruction of evidence) and section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC.

Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered, with her throat slit, at the Talwar?s residence in Noida on the morning of May 16, 2008. The body of Hemraj, the Talwars? help, was found on the terrace the next day.

The CBI, in its closure report in the case, had said there were ?gaps in the investigation? and Rajesh Talwar, a dentist, remained the only suspect in the murder case of his daughter and Hemraj.

Rajesh was also arrested by the CBI in the case earlier.