Dentist Nupur Talwar, mother of murdered teenager Aarushi, has expressed her desire to adopt the daughter of a fellow inmate of the Dasna jail, where she is currently lodged. Talwar, who is lodged in Barrack 13 at Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad since April 30 in connection with the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, has asked for permission from Dasna Jail Superintendent Dr Virash Raj Sharma to adopt a little girl named Ravina Khan, who is also lodged in jail with her mother Sakina.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday denied newsreports that claimed that Dr Rajesh Talwar and his wife Nupur were not at home the night their daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj were killed.Some newspapers and TV channels had claimed that Dr Rajesh Talwar and his wife Nupur had booked 12 rooms in a hotel outside Delhi to prove that they were not in their Noida home the night Aarushi and Hemraj were murdered. The case has reached a dead-end.
A special court in Ghaziabad on Friday posted January 21 as the next date of hearing on the Central Bureau of Investigation's December 29, 2010 closure report in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case.
Asking Dr Nupur Talwar, accused in the 2008 twin murder of her teenaged daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, to seek court permission to write a book on the killings, the Dasna jail authorities have seized the 17 pages written by her.
As the court delivers its verdict on Thursday on the conviction of the Talwars in 2008 double murder case in Noida, here's a timeline in the case.
On Sunday, the CBI subjected both Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar (parents of Aarushi) to a polygraph test in order to ascertain whether the statements given by the duo are corroborating or not. CBI sources told rediff.com that, if need be, they may subject Dr Talwar to a narco analysis test. He may have to be brought down to Bangalore in case they decide to go ahead with the test.
The Supreme Court on Monday has come down hard on Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for asking14 witnesses to record their statements before a trial court in connection with the murder of their daughter Aarushi.
The fruitless pursuit, which tore the Talwars' lives and reputations to shreds, means that Aarushi's killers have not only got away but may never be found, says Sunil Sethi.
Konkona Sen Sharma and Sohum Shah play Aarushi's parents, while Tabu plays Aarushi's aunt. Irrfan Khan plays the officer investigating the case.
The narco-analysis test conducted on Rajkumar at Bangalore on Wednesday confirmed that the main motive behind the killing of Aarushi Talwar was revenge. Rajkumar, who is a domestic help of Anita Durrani, family friend of the Talwars, said during the test that Krishna, a compounder at Dr Talwar's clinic was upset with his employer and hence he wanted to kill Aarushi.
Patrick French, who profiled Nupur and Rajesh Talwar and the case against them in his book India, A Portrait, speaks to Rediff.com about their acquittal.
A new video purportedly of the test conducted on Krishna has surfaced on social networking site YouTube which is 58.55-minute long. CBI sources claimed the agency, in its records, has only about 45 minutes of video of the test conducted on Krishna at Forensic Science Laboratory, Bengaluru.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday told the special court hearing the Aarushi case that the scene of crime was "completely dressed up" and the teenage girl's body was tampered with by dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on the night of crime.
'If the State does want to come after you, in India, it can do pretty much anything. And often it isn't as though the orders are coming from the President or prime minister, no, the systems have been built in a way -- or we have allowed them to be built in a way -- that almost encourages crushing of liberties.'
'The fragility of this case is that taking a side could be a fallacy to do. Because you don't have all the answers. So how do you take one particular side?' Meghna Gulzar asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com
Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) had sentenced the Talwars to life imprisonment on November 28, 2013, holding them guilty in the twin murder case.
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