Talwars killed Hemraj: Wife
The parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar killed their help Hemraj, who had even called in to say that he feared for his life, alleged his wife Khukla Banjade on Saturday, asking for her statement to be recorded in the double-homicide case.
The 43-year-old woman, a resident of Arghakhanchi district in Nepal, filed an application to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad on Saturday and said the probe which was closed for lack of evidence should record her statement.
The court said that matter will be heard on Apr 27.
According to media reports, Khukla claimed that 15 days before Hemraj was killed, he had called her up to say there was a threat to his life. He had purportedly also said that the ?rich and short-tempered? Talwars had not paid his salary for several months.
She accused the Talwars of murdering both Aarushi and Hemraj.
The fresh bout of trouble for the Talwars comes within days of the Supreme Court staying criminal proceedings against them, saying there was no need for the couple to appear before a trial court on Mar 22 in a double murder case.
“We are grateful to the Supreme Court,” they told reporters after the special hearing of the Supreme Court on Mar 19.
While the CBI had all along maintained that Aarushi?s father Rajesh Talwar 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.