Nupur Talwar moves Supreme Court against warrant

New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) A day after she was reported missing, dentist Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 murder of her teenaged daughter Aarushi, Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the non-bailable warrant issued against her by a special CBI court.

An apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar said since the matter was not listed, it would be taken up for hearing Friday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday unsuccessfully searched for Nupur Talwar after a special Ghaziabad court issued the warrant against her for not appearing for a hearing of the case.

Her dentist husband Rajesh Talwar, also an accused in the case, appeared before the court.

Nupur Talwar submitted an application before the court through her lawyer saying that since her review petition was to be heard by the Supreme Court April 27, she could not turn up before the court Wednesday.

Nupur Talwar in her application told the court that neither the Uttar Pradesh Police which had initially investigated the case nor the Central bureau of Investigation has considered her an accused. She said that it was the trial court magistrate who considers her as an accused and has issued warrants against her.

Expressing her apprehension that she would be arrested if she appeared before the magistrate's court, Nupur Talwar said no further investigation was required to be done in the case as investigating agency has already filed its closure report. She contended that no benefit would be caused to any one if fresh investigation would be carried out by the magistrate.

Nupur Talwar told the court that her husband Dr. Rajesh Talwar was granted bail on July 11, 2008 and that has been continued by the apex court on Jan 9, 2012. She said that she has a strong prima facie case favouring her innocence.

Nupur Talwar in her application before the apex court said that "besides being aggrieved mother and a law abiding citizen" she also "enjoys the reputation of as one of the best dental surgeons of the country" and, if arrested then "people would not be able to make distinction between arrest at a pre-conviction stage or the post conviction stage of the present case."

Nupur and Rajesh Talwar's 14-year-old daughter Aarushi was found dead inside her Noida residence in May 2008 with her throat slit. The body of the Talwars' domestic servant Hemraj, initially a suspect in the case, was recovered from the terrace a day later.