With the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case back in public discourse following release of a movie and a book on the issue, the CBI has put out on its website all court orders related to the case including those from Ghaziabad special court to Supreme Court.
While CBI was officially tight-lipped on the release of the book and the movie, senior officials said judgements and orders of various courts were self explanatory for the public to judge.
For the record, CBI spokesperson Devpreet Singh said, “The Arushi-Hemraj murder case is being discussed in public domain. To facilitate the general public, CBI has put all important Court orders on its website cbi.nic.in. No further comments as the matter is sub-judice.’
Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar was found guilty of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj by the Ghaziabad special court. In his exhaustive 210-page order, then special judge Shyam lal convicted the dentist couple for life for their crimes.
Apart from the cognisance order of the special CBI court in Ghaziabad to final conviction order by the sessions court, the agency has also uploaded the bail application filed thereafter by the two convicts and order of the Allahabad High Court.
Acclaimed as an honest and experienced judge, lal had said in his judgment that there was no evidence of any entry into Talwars’ residence in Jalvayu Vihar Noida on the night of 15-16 May, 2008, when 14-year-old Aarushi and Hemraj were killed in the flat.
In his elaborate judgment, lal cited 26 reasons for proclaiming the dentist couple guilty and sentencing them to an imprisonment for life.
“From the evidence as tendered by the prosecution in form of oral and documentary evidence this court reaches to the irresistible and impeccable conclusion that only the accused persons are responsible for committing this ghastly crime as the following circumstances unerringly point towards the hypothesis of guilt of the accused,” the order said.
The uploaded documents on the CBI website also include the order of division bench of Allahabad High Court in which observations were made against the Talwars.
The High Court observed, “Prima facie, no legal infirmity is found in the impugned judgment. We, therefore, do not see any mitigating circumstance why they be granted freedom on bail and not to undergo sentence awarded to them. We may not be misunderstood by any observations made above, as it is only for the purpose of disposal of bail application and are not on merits of the appeal.”
The recently-released book and the film have sought to portray the Talwars as victims of “faulty” CBI probe.
Family members of the some of the CBI officials against whom certain aspersions were cast in the book are planning to move court against the remarks made.