Aarushi murder case: Nupur Talwar gets 3-week parole to visit ailing mother

Allahabad: Nupur Talwar, who is in prison on charges of murdering her teenage daughter Aarushi, was on Monday granted parole by Allahabad High Court for three weeks to visit her ailing mother.

A division bench comprising justices B K Narayana and A K Mishra ordered the release of Nupur for three weeks following her plea that she be granted parole as her mother was seriously ill and all her other siblings were abroad.

The court granted the parole observing that she may be allowed to take care of her ailing mother until her siblings return to the country.

The Talwar couple, who were well-known dental surgeons based in Noida, were awarded life sentence by a special CBI court at Ghaziabad in November, 2013.

14-year old Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit in her bedroom on May 16, 2008. The couple was also charged with the murder of their dometic help Hemraj, whose body was later found in their terrace at Jalvayu Vihar in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi.

The Talwars, who are serving life imprisonment, have however staunchly claimed innocence in the case.

The case had caught the nation’s imagination and is one of the most high-profile murder cases in the country which was extensively covered by the media.

Also known as the 2008 Noida-double murder case, it also served as the premise of the 2015 Bollywood movie titled Talvar which was written by Vishal Bhardwaj.