Allahabad High Court is likely to deliver its verdict on a plea filed by Rajesh Talwar & Nupur Talwar, parents of Aarushi Talwar who was found dead in her bedroom on 16 May, 2008.
Following is the chronology of events in the case:
2008:
May 16: 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar Aarushi, who was in her teens, was found dead inside her room with her throat slit in Noida's Jal Vayu Vihar. Domestic help Hemraj, a Nepali, suspected of murder.
May 17: Hemraj's body found on the terrace of Talwar's residence.
May 18: Preliminary investigation in the case suggested the murders were conducted with clinical precision and an inside job was suspected.
May 21: The Delhi police joins murder probe.
May 22: Family under suspicion, probe begins on honour killing angle, the police quiz Aarushi's close friend whom she spoke to 688 times in the 45 days preceding her murder.
May 23: Rajesh Talwar arrested for the twin murders.
June 1: The murder case has been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
June 20: Lie detection test of Rajesh Talwar conducted at CFSL, Delhi.
June 25: Second lie detection test conducted on Nupur Talwar. Her first lie detection test was found inconclusive.
June 26: CBI declares the case to be a "blind case".
Rajesh Talwar refused bail by the special magistrate in Ghaziabad.
July 3: The Supreme Court rejects a PIL which challenged the conduct of narco-analysis test on the accused.
July 12: Rajesh Talwar freed on bail from Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad.
2010:
January 5: CBI moves court to conduct narco test on Talwar couple.
December 29: CBI submits closure report. Clean chit to servants but points fingers at parents.
2011:
January 25: Rajesh Talwar attacked in the Ghaziabad court premises.
February 9: Court takes cognisance of CBI report, charges Aarushi's parents with murder and destruction of evidence.
February 21: Couple approaches the Allahabad High Court for quashing trial court summons.
March 18: High Court dismisses their plea to quash summons and orders initiation of proceedings against them.
March 19: The couple approaches the Supreme Court which stays the trial against them.
2012:
January 6: Supreme Court dismisses Talwar's plea and allows the trial to proceed.
May 25: Talwars were charged by Ghaziabad court with murder, conspiracy and destruction of evidence.
2013:
May 6: Trial court ordered to record Talwas' statements.
November 26: The CBI court in Ghaziabad announced life imprisonment to the Talwar couple, sent to Dasna jail.
2014:
January 21: Rajesh & Nupur Talwar move to Allahabad High Court against CBI court's life term order.
May 19: Allahabad High Court denies bail to Rajesh & Nupur Talwar.
2017:
January 11, 2017: Allahabad High Court reserves its judgment on an appeal filed by the Talwar's, challenging their conviction by a CBI court in 2013.
September 17, 2017: Allahabad High Court keeps its judgement reserved in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case.
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