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Two Aarushi murder case suspects released on bail
Three days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) admitted its failure to collect conclusive evidence in the murders of teenager Aarushi Talwar and her domestic help, a court on Friday granted bail to Krishna and Raj Kumar, suspects in the case.
- IANS
- Published: 22:59 September 12, 2008
Ghaziabad: Three days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) admitted its failure to collect conclusive evidence in the murders of teenager Aarushi Talwar and her domestic help, a court on Friday granted bail to Krishna and Raj Kumar, suspects in the case.
Krishna's bail application was filed before the special CBI magistrate Sapna Mishra, who after hearing arguments, granted him bail on two sureties of Rs25,000 (Dh2,006).
CBI counsel Suresh Batra, opposing the bail plea, told the court Krishna is a foreign national and he may flee to his native country, Nepal, if granted bail.
Four months in jail
Defence counsel F.C. Sharma said the CBI has no evidence against Krishna and had failed to recover the murder weapon from him in spite of detaining him for about four months.
The agency declared on September 9 that it has no evidence against the three accused and has failed to recover the weapon.
Aarushi, the daughter of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, was found murdered in her Noida house on May 16. The Uttar Pradesh police in their primary investigation held the father guilty of the murder and arrested him.
On June 13, the case was transferred to the CBI. The agency zeroed in on the three men.
But it also failed to establish the three men as Aarushi's murderers despite scientific tests conducted by the Central Forensic Laboratory.
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