SC reserves order for Tuesday on Rajesh, Nupur Talwar`s plea
SC will pronounce its order on Tuesday on a plea of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking the reports of polygraph, narco-analysis and brain-mapping test conducted on their three helpers.
|Last Updated: Oct 07, 2013, 07:26 PM IST|Source: Bureau
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce its order on Tuesday on a plea of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking the reports of polygraph, narco-analysis and brain-mapping test conducted on their three helpers who were the initial accused in the murder of their daughter Aarushi.
A bench of justices B S Chauhan and S A Bobde reserved the order after the Talwar` couple, who are facing trial for allegedly killing their teenaged daughter, pleaded these reports are essential to defend themselves and CBI is opposing their plea saying that it is a tactic on the part of the couple to prolong the trial.
The Talwars had approached the apex court challenging the order of the trial court and the Allahabad High Court dismissing their plea for a direction to the agency to produce the reports of tests carried out on Raj Kumar, Vijay Mandal and Krishna in the trial court.
Pleading for scientific records to be taken on record by the trial court, senior advocate U U Lalit, appearing for the Talwars, submitted such tests were conducted on the couple which extinguished any possibility of their involvement in the crime but the tests done on their servants suggested the possibility of their involvement.
Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra opposed the plea saying the findings of such tests cannot be admissible as evidence and the couple filed different applications in various courts just to prolong the proceedings in the lower court and the trial judge hearing the case is retiring in November.
Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit in her bedroom on May 16, 2008. The initial suspicion was on Hemraj whose body was later found on the terrace at their residence in Jalvayu Vihar in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi.
CBI case is that the murder of 14-year-old Aarushi
five years ago was carried out by her parents and that no outsider was present.
The High Court, while dismissing their plea on narco-analysis and brain mapping test reports, however accepted their plea to have the sound simulation test report produced before the trial court.
The test was conducted by CBI on the issue of how the Talwars could not hear anything when the murders were taking place.
The CBI Sessions court in Ghaziabad, where the trial is going on, had rejected these applications on June 18.
PTI
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