New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case on Tuesday. It is to decide whether the magistrate was competent to take cognizance making the Talwars accused.
In the last hearing in April, the Talwars told the Supreme Court that the media was influencing the trial and questioned the lower court order as well as the CBI's investigation.
The Talwars in the April hearing told the Supreme Court how CBI overlooked the confessional statements of servant Krishna and ignored their demand for touch DNA test, and that the CBI also ignored blood stains on Krishna and Hemraj's pillow covers.
14-year-old Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit at her Noida residence on the outskirts of Delhi on May 16, 2008 and the body of their domestic help, Hemraj, was found on the terrace of her house the next day.
On March 19, this year, the Supreme Court had stayed during a special hearing the Allahabad High Court order that had refused to set aside a special Ghaziabad CBI court direction, summoning the couple in the case.
The CBI after probing the blind murder case for over a two-and-half years had filed its closure report in the case in the Ghaziabad Special CBI court, saying it had been unable to find out any evidence to prosecute the Talwars.
But the trial court had rejected the closure report, saying there was enough prima facie material in the agency's report to put the couple on trial for their alleged involvement in the twin murders and had issued summons to them to face trial.
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar had subsequently gone to the Allahabad High Court, which had dismissed their pleas to quash the trial court summons and the proceedings initiated against them.
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