Nupur Talwar moves SC, says she is not being given parity

New Delhi: Hours after being denied bail by the Ghaziabad sessions court, Nupur Talwar, one of the co- accused in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, has now filed an application for bail in the Supreme Court. In the submission, her legal team has alleged that Nupur has not been granted parity, which is a violation of Article 21.

However, Nupur Talwar will continue to stay in Dasna jail till the Supreme Court takes up her application.

Earlier on Wednesday, a sessions court in Ghaziabad had rejected Nupur’s bail plea on the basis tthat she was prima facie accused in a double murder, and that there was a possibility that she could flee from trial. The judge had reportedly given a three and a half page order, but no other details were immediately available.

The judgement says, “She can create hinderance in smooth disposal of trial despite direction from the Supreme Court and she can delay the trial by fleeing”.

Nupur Talwar has been lodged in the Dasna jail for two days awaiting the bail order, where she was also reportedly on a fast. Just hours before the verdict on Wednesday, the mother of she ended her fast after meeting her husband, Rajesh.

Nupur, who spent her second night in Dasna jail on Tuesday had said in the morning that she would be on a fast until the court delivered its verdict.

Nupur Talwar was taken into judicial custody on Monday when she surrendered before the CBI Special Court as per a Supreme Court directive, that also refused to cancel a non bailable warrant issued against her by the same court. She applied for bail immediately, but the request was denied on the basis that the CBI special court had no jurisdiction to grant bail.

Following the refusal, her lawyers filed a petition before the sessions court which reserved its order until today, when it refused to grant bail.

Aarushi, 14, was found dead inside her Noida residence in May, 2008 with her throat slit and the body of the Talwars’ domestic servant Hemraj was recovered from the terrace hours later.

An outcry against the shoddy investigation by Uttar Pradesh police had led to the then Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh handing over the case to the CBI.