Click to play videoNew Delhi: The four-year-old sensational double murder case of Noida teenager Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj is far from over. After several twists and turns since the twin murders came to light in May 2008, the case is yet to be cracked even though first the UP Police and then the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which was handed over the case following allegations of incompetence against the local police officers, claimed to have nailed the culprits several times but ultimately failed to prove their allegations.
Fourteen-year-old Aarushi, the only daughter of the Dr Rajesh Talwar and Dr Nupur Talwar, was found dead with her throat slit at the family's Noida residence on the intervening night of May 15-16, 2008 and the body of their domestic help, Hemraj, was found on the terrace the next day.
Hemraj was initially suspected to have killed Aarushi after he could not be traced on the day Aarushi's murder was discovered with the Talwars insisting that he had fled to Nepal after killing their daughter.
But after his body was found on the terrace the next day, the case became complicated with allegations and counter-allegations flying.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the application of Dr Rajesh and Dr Nupur Talwar and gave a green signal to conduct a trial against them in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case.
The dentist couple will have to stand trial for the murder of their daughter. In a setback for the Talwars, the apex court said it would not interfere with the Ghaziabad CBI court order to make them accused in the case.
The trial in the 2008 murder case will begin on February 6.
On December 29, 2010 the CBI had filed a closure report in the case giving a clean chit to the servants but pointing fingers at the Talwars.
However, the trial court rejected the CBI's closure report and summoned the Talwar couple as accused to face charges of murder and destruction of evidence.
Talwars filed a petition in the Allahabad High Court for quashing of trial court summons but it was dismissed. The High Court also ordered the initiation of proceedings against them.
The Talwars had rebutted the CBI's theory of their involvement and said the servants - Hemraj, Rajkumar and Krishna - were involved in the killing of Aarushi.
But in a setback on Friday the Supreme Court dismissed the Talwars' petition for quashing of criminal proceedings against them, and said it was not going into the merits of the case and hoped the trial would be expedited.
The Talwars, meanwhile, insisted in the court that the servants were involved in the killing of Aarushi and cited various evidences as proof for their claims. The court however clearly told them that citing gory details of the crime was not going to help them.
Over the last few years, several people have been accused in the case - including the Talwars and their former servants Vishnu Sharma and Krishna. Other suspects were Hemraj's associates Rajkumar, Vijay Mandal and Anita Durrani, a friend of the Talwars.
During the initial investigations the UP Police had termed the case as an honour killing and even questioned Aarushi character among allegations that she was involved in a relationship with Hemraj.
It was also alleged that Dr Rajesh Talwar was having an affair too, who was then arrested and denied bail.
In April 2011, the Talwars had told the Supreme Court that the media was influencing the trial and questioned the lower court order as well as the investigation by the CBI.
On March 19, 2011, the Supreme Court had stayed during a special hearing the Allahabad High Court order that had refused to set aside a special Ghaziabad CBI court direction, summoning the couple in the case.
The CBI had after probing the blind murder case had filed its closure report in the case in the Ghaziabad Special CBI court, saying it had been unable to find out any evidence to prosecute the Talwars.
However, the trial court had rejected the closure report, saying there was enough prima facie material in the agency's report to put the couple on trial for their alleged involvement in the twin murders and had issued summons to them to face trial.
In March 2011, Hemraj's widow also filed an application in Ghaziabad Court claiming Talwars had killed her husband and Aarushi.
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