New Delhi, Feb. 9: The dentist couple, Dr Rajesh and Dr Nupur Talwar were on Wednesday charged by a CBI special court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, with murder and destruction of evidence in the killing of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj nearly three years ago.
Both have been charged under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention to commit a crime) of the Indian Penal Code in the sensational Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case.
The Uttar Pradesh police had arrested Dr Rajesh Talwar soon after the May 2008 killings as an accused in the case. However, following an outcry over the alleged character assassination of both Rajesh Talwar and his dead daughter Aarushi, the case was transferred to the CBI, which later arrested three servants in the case — Rajkumar, Vijay Mandal and Krishna. But the agency was unable to come up with concrete evidence against any of them. Taking several points mentioned in the closure report filed by the CBI as evidence against the Talwar couple, the special CBI judge, Ms Preeti Singh, ordered that they be made accused in the double murder.