NEW DELHI:
Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI has told the Supreme Court that Rajesh and Nupur Talwar have been wrongly cleared of charges of murdering their teen daughter Aarushi and domestic help. In its appeal, CBI said that the court’s clean chit to the Talwars were guilty was wrong on “many counts”.
The dentist couple had walked out of Ghaziabad’s Dasna prison last October after the Allahabad High Court cancelled the life sentence handed out to them by a lower court in 2013.
The Talwars’ daughter Aarushi was found with her throat slit in her bedroom just days short of her 14th birthday in 2008. The family’s domestic help Hemraj was suspected until his body was discovered the next day on the rooftop of the building where the family lived in Noida near Delhi.
Both parents of Arushi had denied the murder charges
It wasn’t clear for a long time if the CBI would appeal against the high court verdict. For one, many officers including AP Singh, who headed the CBI for a key part of the investigation, had conceded there were “loopholes” in the agency’s case.