In Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, the local CBI court granted permission to Talwars to leave NCR to file an appeal against its order, in which it had rejected Talwars application to summon 13 CBI officials as witnesses whose names were figured in the original list of witnesses submitted by the prosecution.
The local CBI court granted them permission after the Supreme Court asked Talwars to go the Allahabad High Court for any relief against the local court’s order for rejecting their application to summon 13 CBI officials.
After Supreme Court’s order Talwars had to seek the permission from the local court to leave NCR vide Supreme Court order dated January 9, 2012 in which the apex court put condition in bail that “The accused cannot leave NCR without court permission”.
“We filed a SlP in the Supreme Court of India in which we prayed to quash the lower court’s order and to further order to call 13 CBI officials in witness box whose names were figured in the original list of witnesses. In its order, the Supreme Court asked us to go the High Court for which we submitted before the lower court to grant us the permission to leave NCR to go to file an appeal against the lower court’s order. The court of CBI Special judge S lal granted us permission and adjourn the court for hearing till May 17, 2013,” said Manoj Shishodia, the defence lawyer.
Earlier the CBI special judge mentioned that the testimonies of the prosecution evidences were completed on April 24, 2013 but the accused filed application for summoning of 13 other witnesses which were included in the original list.