IANS/Ghaziabad

The verdict in the double murders of teenager Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj will be delivered on November 25, a court hearing the case said yesterday.

Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal of the Central Bureau of India court reserved the order after the defence completed its final arguments and the CBI submitted its rebuttal in the case, which has seen several twists and turns.

The CBI yesterday maintained its stand that the girl’s parents, the dentist couple of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, had killed Nupur and Hemraj adding circumstantial evidence was against them.

But the defence lawyers alleged the Talwars had been framed.

Defence lawyer Satyaketu Singh said the CBI had failed to establish the unbreakable chain of events. At one point of time, the agency claimed the Talwars killed Aarushi and Hemraj out of sudden provocation, but at another point the CBI claimed the couple rushed to Hemraj’s room, picked up a golf stick and hit them to death.

The second injury on the neck could not be due to sudden provocation. It would have been executed as a well-thought plan.

At the same time, the probe agency doubted the three servants it interrogated and applied for their remand but being in double mind, finally withdrew the application.

Earlier also, the CBI had submitted the final report in the absence of convincing evidence, the defence lawyer said.

“As per a Supreme Court ruling, the probable circumstances are not sufficient to establish that somebody is guilty of the crime. The prosecution should establish the unbreakable sequence of events.”

But the CBI has failed to establish the chain of events affirming the crime and claim that the Talwars could have killed the two in absence of outside entry, which is full of lapses, he said.

The entire theory of CBI depends on probability, which is against the spirit of law, Satyaketu Singh argued.

Regarding the nature of injury, the defence conducted a demonstration of golf sticks and claimed the point of contact was too small so it could not have generated an 8x2cm crack in the rear portion of the skull. The CBI has claimed Talwars’ driver Umesh identified 4 and 5 number golf sticks. But the lawyer said it was impossible to identify these since the number is embossed at the bottom and the CBI showed them the upper handle only from inside a bag.

Former Uttar Pradesh police officer K K Gautam, a witness, said he noticed three depression marks on Hemraj’s bed which suggested there was an outsider’s entry in the house.

The defence lawyer added that three glasses and three empty bottles of soft drink and beer were also evidence of the presence of outsiders. So, the CBI theory is full of lapses, he claimed.

Satyaketu Singh presented arguments for about four hours, from 11am to 2pm and again 3pm to 4pm.

Aarushi, 14, was found murdered in her apartment in Noida on May 16, 2008. The next day, the body of Hemraj was discovered on the apartment’s terrace.

Rajesh and Nupur were in the house on the night the crime was committed.

They are out on bail.

On December 29, 2010, the CBI had filed its report for closing the case.