Friday, January 6, 2012: In a major setback to dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, the Supreme Court on Friday cleared the decks for their trial in their daughter Aarushi’s murder case.A bench of justices AK Ganguly and JS Khehar dismissed the couple’s plea to quash criminal proceedings against them in the sensational 2008 case involving the killing of Talwars’ domestic aide Hemraj and their teenaged daughter in Noida on Delhi’s outskirts.
The bench said there was nothing wrong in the magistrate’s order taking cognisance against them and putting them on trial.
Refusing to interfere with the lower court’s order which had rejected the CBI’s closure report, the bench said that magistrate gave the ruling after applying his mind.
“We dismiss the appeal,” the bench said while clarifying that today’s order would not prejudice the trial against the accused.
The 14-year-old Aarushi, the only daughter of the Talwars, 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.
