Aarushi murder case: Hemraj's wife moves SC challenging Talwars' acquittal

NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 22: Relatives and friend of Arushi Talwar protest and demand the justice for Arushi Talwar and Hemraj at Jantar Mantar on December 22, 2013 in New Delhi, India. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi, the only child of the dentist couple Talwars, resident of Noida, was found murdered in her parents' home on May 16, 2008. The body of Hemraj, a domestic help, was found the next day on the terrace of the house. (Photo by Sushil Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The acquittal of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the 2008 twin murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj has been challenged in the Supreme Court.

The plea, filed by Hemraj's wife, is the first petition in the top court against the Allahabad High Court verdict of October 12 this year acquitting the couple.

The high court had freed them of the charges on the ground that they could not be held guilty on the basis of the evidence on record.

A CBI court at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh had sentenced the Talwars to life imprisonment on November 26, 2013 in connection with the case.

Before the high court's order came, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were serving their life sentence in Ghaziabad's Dasna jail.

Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found dead inside her room in the Talwars' Noida residence with her throat slit in May 2008. The needle of suspicion had initially moved towards 45- year-old Hemraj, who had gone missing but his body was recovered from the terrace of the house two days later.

As the Uttar Pradesh Police drew flak over a shoddy probe into the case which was making national headlines, then chief minister Mayawati had recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The case was handed over to the CBI.