Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case: On heels of movie, book, CBI puts court orders on website

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While the CBI was officially tight-lipped on the release of the book and the movie, senior officials said judgments and orders of various courts were self-explanatory.

The Ghaziabad special court found dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar guilty of killing Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj.

The 210-page exhaustive order by the then special judge Shyam Lal went into arguments of defence as well as prosecution for nearly a year before the dentist couple were sentenced for life for the crimes.

CBI has started from the beginning of the case and uploaded all the orders, including cognisance order of the special CBI court in Ghaziabad and final conviction order by the sessions court.

The bail application filed thereafter by the two accused and order of the Allahabad High Court have also been uploaded.

Lal had said in his judgment there was no evidence of any entry into Talwars’ residence in Jalvayu Vihar Noida on the night of May 15-16, 2008, when 14-year-old Aarushi and Hemraj were killed in the flat.

Recently, the book and the Hindi film have given rise to debate over the case as both weigh in favour of the Talwars, while the case is pending before Allahabad High Court.

Talwars have missed four dates of hearing claiming their lawyers are busy in Supreme Court.

After it was pointed out that Supreme Court was on vacation on the dates cited by Talwars, the high court has asked them to file an affidavit giving details of dates and cases in which their lawyers were busy.

In his elaborate judgment, Lal cited 26 reasons for proclaiming the dentist couple guilty and sentencing them to 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.