Allahabad, March 1 (IANS) The CBI Tuesday told the Allahabad High Court that it had ‘sufficient circumstantial evidence’ to prove that teenager Aarushi Talwar was killed by her father Rajesh Talwar after he caught her in a compromising position with domestic help Hemraj, who was also bludgeoned to death by him.
Opposing a petition moved by the Talwars against the order of the special court in Ghaziabad indicting the parents, the agency sought to charge Aarushi’s mother Nupur Talwar of assisting her husband in ‘destroying all evidence’.
The 14-year-old Aarushi, a Class 9 student of Delhi Public School, Noida, was found murdered at her parents’ apartment in Noida May 16, 2008.
Hemraj was initially suspected for the killing but his body was found on the flat’s terrace a day later.
After the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) concluded its arguments, the bench of Justice B.K. Narayana fixed Thursday for defence counsel Gopal Chaturvedi’s rejoinder.
The CBI submitted its closure report Dec 29 last year.
Ghaziabad-based CBI Special Judicial Magistrate Preeti Singh had ordered Feb 9 that the Talwars be charged with murder, destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy.
