New Delhi:
Nupur Talwar, accused of murdering her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in 2008, will remain in the Dasna jail where she was brought on Monday evening. A Ghaziabad court headed by Judge S Lal rejected her request for bail saying that it would be in the interest of justice to keep her in jail.
While rejecting her bail plea; the judge gave the following reasons for his decision.
- (The) Accused applicant has tried her best to avoid appearing in court, to scuttle the fair and smooth progress of the case, and even circumvented the order of the Supreme Court, and, therefore, her conduct has been such that she can't be released. \
- If she is (given) bail, she may flee from justice, create hindrance in the speedy disposal of the case as directed by the Supreme Court.
- Legal history is replete with instances of matricide, fratricide and patricide. Everything is possible in these days of modern era wherein moral values are fast declining and one can stoop to the lowest extent.
- She is accused of killing her own progeny, who was in her teens and thereby brought blot on escutcheon (stain on one's honour!), apart from killing domestic help Hemraj, who had come down from Nepal to eke out a livelihood.
- Both the deceased were found murdered in the intervening night of 15th and 16th May. Accused applicant was asleep in the house along with her husband that fateful night.She is also accused of obliterating the evidence of commission of offence of twin murders.
- At this stage it will not be proper to refer to the merits of the case. Prima facie evidence to suggest involvement of the accused. (Given the) seriousness of offence and severity of punishment, I am not inclined to grant bail.
Mrs Talwar was not present in court when these observations were made and she came to know about the rejection of her plea through television reports. According to the jailer, Viresh Raj Sharma, Mrs Talwar did not understand the bail conditions and appeared shocked after hearing the decision.
Her lawyers are now likely to appeal to the Allahabad High Court for bail but that could take at least 11 days to come up.