STORY: "Allahabad HC to pronounce verdict on October 12," published by Express Web Desk on September 7, 2017.
SUB-HEADING: After a five-year investigation, the CB court in 2013 had convicted Aarushi's parents Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar for the double murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
STORY: "The Allahabad High Court will on October 12 pronounce its verdict in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. The court on Wednesday reserved its verdict after completion of arguments. 14-year old Aarushi Talwar was killed at her home on May 16 2008. Two days later the body of her domestic help Hemraj was recovered from the terrace of her flat. After a five-year investigation, the CB court in 2013 had convicted Aarushi’s parents Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar for the double murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment. They are serving their punishment in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad."
The entire story can be found at:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/aarushi-hemraj-murder-case-allahabad-hc-to-pronounce-verdict-on-october-12-4833198/
See also previous post of this Blog - Aarushi Talwar murder: Inside story of India's most controversial trial - at the link below: "The Talwars, like most Indians, believed the
CBI was independent of state police. It is not. It consists of officers
drawn from state police forces across the country. It turned out that
all the CBI officers in the Talwars’ case were colleagues of the state
police who originally botched the investigation. In seeking to close the case, the CBI appeared to tempt the Talwars to escape the arduous justice system. Instead, the Talwars argued the case should
not be closed and appealed to a court set up exclusively for cases
investigated by the CBI. The court was in nearby Ghaziabad, situated amid dirt alleyways, heaps of garbage and decrepit offices with crumbling walls. As Rajesh left the courtroom and walked past a
throng of television cameras after a hearing in January 2011, a man
lunged at him and slashed his face with a meat cleaver, slicing an
artery and a nerve. When Rajesh held up his hands, the cleaver tore into
them, cutting tendons and breaking one finger. The vigilante, who was overpowered, said he was upset at the slow pace of the case. As for Rajesh’s appeal, the CBI court
disagreed with both him and the CBI. It ruled there was enough in the
report to charge the Talwars with murder. With the Talwars
standing trial, defence lawyers now had access to all the evidence. They
came upon a forensics report dated Nov. 6, 2008, two months after
Krishna and the other two suspects had been released. It analyzed the items taken from Krishna’s room by the first CBI team, and concluded that the blood on the kukri was from an unidentified animal. The blood on the pillow cover was Hemraj’s. Here was evidence that directly tied one of the victims to a man the CBI had originally named a suspect. The Talwars rushed this document to the High
Court. How did the CBI explain it? It said the lab had made a
“typographical error” in identifying the origin of the pillow cover; it
came from Hemraj’s room, not Krishna’s. There were no documents to back
this assertion. The High Court accepted the CBI explanation. That was on March 18, 2011. The CBI next released a letter from the lab
that acknowledged the typo and regretted “the inconvenience caused.” It
was dated March 24, 2011. The Talwars appealed the CBI court’s order to stand trial at the High Court and lost. They took it to the Supreme Court. There, the defence argued that the CBI was
relying on flawed evidence to prosecute them. They wanted the huge palm
print found on the Talwars’ terrace and the whisky bottle tested by the Touch DNA test . This test extracts DNA from cells of the outermost layer of skin left behind after touching a surface. The Supreme Court rejected the Talwars’ appeal, refusing to order further investigation."
http://bestsellermagazine.com/news/Aarushi-Talwar-murder:-Inside-story-of-India%E2%80%99s-most-controversial-trialPUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/c
