Live updates: Talwars likely to walk free today after being acquitted in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case

Dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar were likely to walk free on Friday, a day after the Allahabad high court acquitted them in the 2008 murders of their teenage daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj.

The Talwars were lodged in Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail since November 2013 after being convicted by a CBI court. The Talwars’ lawyer said they were likely to be out of the jail by 4pm after the prison authorities received the court order.

While acquitting the couple of the murders, the Allahabad HC said that neither the circumstances nor the evidence was enough to hold them guilty

Here are updates from the day after the Allahabad high court’s order:

12.10pm : “We have not received the court order as yet. We will release them once we get it,” Dasna jail superintendent Dadhiram Maurya told reporters.

11.50am: In his comments in the judgement, Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra of the Allahabad high court said that some reflection were needed on the style and approach of the trial Judge who convicted and sentence the Talwar couple.

11.35am: The verdict ends, at least for now, the nine-year ordeal of the Noida couple who were sentenced to life by a Ghaziabad CBI court on November 28, 2013 for the double murders that not only transfixed but also shook the nation with its element of filicide. Read the full verdict given by the Allahabad HC here.