Aarushi Talwar was found dead on May 16, 2008
The Supreme Court Friday admitted an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the Allahabad High Court order acquitting Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj double murder case. The CBI had challenged the order in May this year. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph said the appeal will be heard along with the petition filed by Hemraj’s wife.
The dentist couple was acquitted of all charges by the HC in October 2017. The court had said the the prosecution failed to establish its hypothesis that the parents, who were the “only” ones at home at the time, had committed the murders. The Talwars walked out of Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail on October, 2017.
Aarushi, 14, was found with her throat slit in her room at the Talwars’ residence in Noida in May 2008. The police initially suspected 45-year-old Hemraj, the family’s help. However, his body was recovered from the terrace two days later. The investigation was subsequently handed over the CBI by the Mayawati government. A CBI court in Ghaziabad had sentenced the Talwars to life imprisonment on November 26, 2013.