Aarushi murder case: Court rejects Nupur Talwar's bail plea

NEW DELHI: The sessions court in Ghaizabad on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of Nupur Talwar, accused in the Aarushi murder case. The Sessions Court has rejected her bail plea for the third time today.

According to TV reports, she will now be applying for bail to the Allahabad high court. The court refused bail saying she may tamper with evidence. The bail of her husband Rajesh Talwar ends on May 7 and the CBI wants him in custody as well.

Nupur Talwar may have to spend 11 more days in jail since the Allahabad HC will hear a bail petition only 10 days after it is filed.

On April 27, Nupur Talwar was directed by the Supreme Court to surrender before the trial court in Ghaziabad in the twin murder case of her 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in Noida four years ago.

Refusing to stay the non-bailable warrant issued against her by the special CBI court, a bench of justices A K Patnaik and J S Khehar asked her to approach the trial judge for bail after surrendering which shall expeditiously consider her plea.

The court also turned down her plea for granting protection against any arrest on her surrender.

"We should not anticipate about what the trial court is going to do. You appear before it and the court shall consider your bail. If you do not get bail then there are higher courts," the bench said.

The bench pointed out that her husband also got bail in the twin murder case.

"We are not inclined to stay the operation of the order of NBW issued by the Special Judge, Ghaziabad. But we direct that petitioner (Nupur Talwar) will appear on Monday and move her bail. In case application for bail is moved, the same shall be considered expeditiously," the bench said.

Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 double murder of her daughter Aarushi and a domestic help, was jailed on Monday after a district court rejected her interim bail plea in which she said a mother can't kill her own child.