New Delhi: The parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar are slated to go to the Supreme Court on Friday to challenge proceedings against them by a trial court.
Both Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were named the prime accused in the murder of their 15-year-old daughter in Noida in 2008.
The apex court is slated to decide whether the magistrate was competent to take cognizance making the dentist couple accused in the case.
In April 2011, the Talwars had told the Supreme Court that the media was influencing the trial and questioned the lower court order as well as the investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit at her Noida residence on May 16, 2008 and the body of their domestic help, Hemraj, was found on the terrace of her house the next day.
On March 19, 2011, the Supreme Court had stayed during a special hearing the Allahabad High Court order that had refused to set aside a special Ghaziabad CBI court direction, summoning the couple in the case.
The CBI had after probing the blind murder case for over two-and-half years had filed its closure report in the case in the Ghaziabad Special CBI court, saying it had been unable to find out any evidence to prosecute the Talwars.
However, the trial court had rejected the closure report, saying there was enough prima facie material in the agency's report to put the couple on trial for their alleged involvement in the twin murders and had issued summons to them to face trial.
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar had subsequently gone to the Allahabad High Court, which had dismissed their pleas to quash the trial court summons and the proceedings initiated against them.
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