Rajesh & Nupur Talwar found guilty of killing Aarushi & Hemraj

NEW DELHI: A CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday held Dr Rajesh Talwar and his wife Nupur Talwar guilty of murder, ruling it has been “proved beyond reasonable doubt” that the dentist couple were the perpetrators of the crime of killing their 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in Noida in 2008.

“The parents are the best protectors of their own children. That is the order of the human nature but there have been freaks in the history of mankind where the father and the mother became the killer of their own progeny. They (Talwars) have extirpated their own daughter who hardly had seen 14 summers of her life and the servant without the compunction of terrestrial terrain in the breach of commandment ‘thou shall not kill’ and injunction of Holy Quran ‘take not life which god has made sacred’,” CBI special judge Shyam Lal said in his 204-page judgment convicting the couple in the sensational murder case. The Talwars, who were taken to Dasna jail soon after the verdict and will know the quantum of their sentence on Tuesday, said they were disappointed with the verdict and will appeal in the Allahabad HC.

“We are deeply disappointed, hurt and anguished for being for being convicted for a crime that we have not committed. We will continue to fight for justice,” a statement by the couple said.

After a trial lasting 15 months, the judgment came on Monday, holding the couple guilty of murder and destruction of evidence.