On October 12, while discharging Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the May 2008 carnage of their only daughter Aarushi, the Allahabad High Court stated that the “sequence of incidents” which resulted into their detention “stood snapped the moment” the CBI remained unsuccessful to authenticate that the family’s L-32 residence in Noida’s Jalvayu Vihar had been shut from inside when Bharati Mandal, the family’s house servant and CBI’s main witness, hit the bell during morning. This, the bench concluded, proposes a “strong possibility of outsiders having accessed” the residence and exiting after carrying out the double slaughter — of Aarushi and the Talwars’ full-time servant, Hemraj — on the superseding night of May 15-16, 2008.
The CBI case and the 2013 decision by the Ghaziabad trial court that condemned the dentist pair had relied deeply on the hypothesis that there was no likelihood of there being any strangers in the house on the murder night. But, the HC carried on looking at “key facts”, that the CBI had lodged in the Ghaziabad trial court, to locate holes in the group’s case in opposition to the Talwars.
The purple pillow cover
On June 14, 2008, the Noida Police, headed by probing officer Vijay Kumar and deputy superintendent of police R S Kuru, had forayed into the servant room in Noida’s Jalvayu Vihar, where Krishna Thadarai stayed, and found a purple pillow cover, together with a khukri.
Bottles, ‘depression’ on the bed
The 2013 ruling said that there was “nothing to show that an outsider(s) came inside the house… after 9.30 pm”. Whilst controverting this, the HC directed to three exact pieces of the mystery — which had been placed on record before the trial court, which showcased the “likelihood of attendance of other persons.”
Hemraj’s phone active in Punjab
In its concluding report, the CBI stated the telephone rang and the spot was traced to Punjab.
Hemraj’s blood on pillow
Talwars saw Hemraj in a compromising position with Arushi. To support this, the prosecution had claimed that Hemraj’s blood was there on Aarushi’s cushion
Blood on the stairs
The CBI had relied on their “post-crime manner” — that, after murdering Hemraj, they supposedly covered his body using a bedsheet and took to the terrace. Afterward, the CBI alleged, the pair cleaned the bloodstains on the stairs.
The case of the FIR
The CBI stated that Rajesh Talwar had “intentionally” filed a fake FIR in opposition to Hemraj and “misdirected the Noida Police”.
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