SC orders release of Nupur Talwar on bail
New Delhi : The Supreme Court Monday directed the trial court hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case to release Nupur Talwar on bail Sep 25. The slain teenager’s mother was taken into custody April 30.
The apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice J.S. Khehar said: “(The) trial court shall release Nupur Talwar on bail subject to its own satisfaction.”
The judges ordered that she be released Sep 25.
Pronouncing the order, Justice Patnaik said: “We direct the trial court may be allowed a week’s time to examine witnesses Vimla Sarkar and Chandra Bhushan or any other witness in the case, if these two witnesses are not available.”
The CBI, in a 30-page affidavit filed in the Supreme Court Aug 9, said Nupur Talwar “is likely to tamper with the evidence and abscond in case she is released on bail”.
“The evidence so far recorded before the trial court is incriminating and hence there is every likelihood that the petitioner (Nupur Talwar) may abscond in the event of release on bail,” the investigating agency told the apex court, opposing her plea for bail.
The affidavit said that Nupur Talwar “tried her level best to remain away from the process of law and she surrendered only after the direction passed by the this (apex) court”.
The CBI said that Nupur Talwar was not a “law abiding citizen and is accused of committing double murder and is facing trial for the same and does not deserve to be released on bail and the order of the court below refusing to release her on bail does not deserve any interference”.
Nupur Talwar and her husband Rajesh Talwar are accused in the murder of their daughter Aarushi and destroying the evidences.
Nupur Talwar was arrested over four months ago. She challenged in the apex court the May 31 rejection of her bail plea by the Allahabad High Court. She is lodged in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad. Her husband is out on bail.
Aarushi, 14, was found murdered at her parents’ Noida residence May 16, 2008. The body of her domestic help Hemraj was found the next day on the terrace of the house.
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what do you expect from a woman and a man who lacks the true humanity for a fellow man…Atleast, the supreme court should not interfere and should allow the law to take its punitive course, atleast to deter subsequent persons who may venture into this murderous and homicidal route…The refusal of trial court to grant bail on such cirscumstance(s) in conformity with the supreme court’s review is not onerous or ambigously omnibus, and should remain that way untill the culprit is duly tried..