Aarushi Talwar, Hemraj murder case verdict LIVE updates: Allahabad HC likely to deliver verdict on Talwar couple’s appeal today

Aarushi Talwar murder case verdict LIVE updates: Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found dead inside her room in her residence with her throat slit in May 2008. (File Photo)

The Allahabad High Court is likely to deliver its verdict on Thursday in the murder case of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj, four years after a special CBI court in Ghaziabad held the parents guilty, awarding them life imprisonment. Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, who are currently lodged in Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail, had filed an appeal challenging their conviction. The high court bench comprising justices BK Narayana and AK Mishra reserved its judgment on September 7 and had fixed October 12 as the date for the verdict.

On May 16, 2008, Aarushi Talwar was found murdered in her bedroom at the family’s residence in Noida’s Jal Vayu Vihar. Her throat was slit and her head bludgeoned. The police initially suspected their domestic help, Hemraj, but a day later his body too was recovered from the terrace of their same flat.

Aarushi Talwar murder case verdict LIVE updates

10:50 am: The Talwars were convicted guilty on November 25, 2013. CBI judge Shyam Lal held the parents guilty for both the murders and destruction of evidence. “The parents are the best protector of their own children and that is the order of the human nature, but they have been freaks in the history of mankind when the father and mother became the killer of their own progeny,” wrote the judge.

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10: 10 am: As the case drew prominence, the then Chief Minister Mayawati took the case from police and handed it over to CBI. During the CBI investigation, narco-analysis tests were conducted on the parents. However, in December, 2010, CBI submitted a closure report to the court on the grounds of ‘insufficient evidence’, giving a clean chit to all the servants and citing Rajesh Talwar as the prime suspect.

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9:30 am: Six days after the murder, police suspected it to be a case of honour killing and both Rajesh, Nupur Talwar came under the scanner. The police alleged that Rajesh carried out the murder after finding his daughter and Hemraj in an ‘objectionable’ position. However, no forensic or material evidence was given by the police to substantiate the claim. Rajesh Talwar on May 23, 2008 was arrested for the double murder.

9:15 am: Noida police while investigating the case suspected the twin murders to be an insider job and had been carried out with ‘surgical precision’. Read: What is the Aarushi Talwar murder case?

9: 10 am: The Allahabad High Court on August 29 had granted Nupur Talwar a parole for three weeks to visit her ailing mother. In her plea, she had requested for a parole saying her mother was seriously ill and all her siblings were abroad.

9:00 am: A day after the conviction, the couple were awarded life imprisonment by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad on November 26, 2013.

8:45 am: A division bench of the Allahabad HC had reserved its judgement on September 7 and fixed October 12 as the date to announce its verdict. The bench comprised of justices B K Narayana and A K Mishra.

8:30 am: The Allahabad High Court on an appeal filed by the Talwar couple is likely to announce its verdict today on the murder of fourteen year old Aarushi Talwar. Follow for the latest updates