Rajesh and Nupur Talwar freed from Dasna prison Monday evening
New Delhi, 17th Oct: Rajesh and Nupur Talwar freed from Dasna jail of Ghaziabad near Delhi on Monday evening and headed for Nupur’s parents’ home in Jal Vayu Vihar, where they will be staying for now. Their own apartment, in which their daughter was murdered, is in the same complex and has been rented out. The couple exonerated in the murder of their only child Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in 2008. The Allahabad High Court had on Thursday cancelled the life sentence handed out to the Talwars by a lower court that had convicted them based on circumstantial evidence. Watched by a huge crowd, the Talwars, each holding bags, walked out of the Dasna prison in Ghaziabad and paused – Rajesh Talwar in a white shirt and dark trousers and Nupur Talwar in a salwar kurta – letting multiple cameras capture their first few moments of freedom. The Talwars’ release was delayed because a copy of the court verdict had not been delivered to the jail last week. They have asked for police protection, citing an earlier attack on Rajesh Talwar at the Ghaziabad court.
The dentist couple has offered to visit the prison every fortnight to treat prisoners. They helped revive the dental department at the prison hospital and treated prisoners as well as the staff, police officers and their children over the years, without charging anything. In 2015, the Talwars were convicted by a Special CBI court of Ghaziabad. They then appealed against that verdict in the Allahabad High Court, which gave them the relief.
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