On 12 October 2017, the Allahabad High Court acquitted Dr Rajesh Talwar and Dr Nupur Talwar for the double murder of their daughter Aarushi and servant, Hemraj, on the night of 15 May 2008.
In November 2013, a special CBI court in Ghaziabad had convicted the Talwars of the double murder of Aarushi and Hemraj, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Rajesh Talwar was also convicted under s. 203 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for giving false information about an offence.
The Talwars appealed against the judgment of the court, with hearings initially concluded in January this year, though additional hearings were required in August to clarify what the court considered contradictory statements by the CBI, which had been later assigned the investigation after a number of high-profile mistakes by the Noida police.
But what did the High Court’s decision need to consider? And what was expected from their verdict?