Verdict in Aarushi-Hemraj double murder on Monday

BY Agencies24 Nov 2013 6:22 AM IST

One of the country’s most sensational criminal trials comes to a close on Monday when dentist couple Talwars will learn if they are to be convicted of killing their daughter. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar from Noida are accused of murdering only child, 14-year-old Aarushi, and their 45-year-old domestic worker Hemraj by slitting their throats ‘with clinical precision’.

The CBI says Aarushi was killed in a fit of rage when her parents found her with the servant in a ‘objectionable’ situation while the couple insist they are victims of a botched police probe and vigilante justice.

‘I never believed such a thing could happen to us. I believed in the Indian justice system,’ Rajesh said in a recent interview.

The prosecution concedes there is no forensic or material evidence against the pair, basing its case on the ‘last-seen theory’ – which holds that the victims were last seen with the accused. ‘All the circumstantial evidence’ is against the Talwars and they ‘misled the investigators and destroyed evidence’, prosecutor RK Saini told the court in his summing-up earlier this month.

The police also insist the slicing of the throats of Aarushi and Hemraj was done by a medical professional using a surgical instrument, pointing the finger at the Talwars. They say a golf club at the house was used to beat the victims. Defence medical experts said the throats could have been cut by a khukri, a Nepalese knife, and a golf club would have caused a ‘depressed fracture’ not the ‘hairline fracture’ found on the two.

Verdict in Aarushi-Hemraj double murder on Monday

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