Setback for Talwars, SC declines plea on witnesses

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a plea by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking to summon 14 witnesses, including former CBI official Arun Kumar, in the trial for murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj.

The apex court’s vacation bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra while declining to hear the plea by the dentist couple, who are both accused in the double murder, took objection to their approaching the court while bypassing the Allahabad High Court.

Aarushi, 14, was found brutally murdered in the Talwars’ Noida residence May 16, 2008. The body of Hemraj, who was first suspected to be the girl’s killer, was found the next day on the terrace of the house.

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