Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, fighting charges in the Noida double murder case, had filed a series of petitions aimed purportedly at delaying the progress of the prosecution in the matter, something to which CBI had time and again raised objections in court.
It was the Talwars' pleas seeking "something else" which invited several rejections by the trial court, high court and even Supreme Court.
On October 8 this year, SC rejected a plea by the duo seeking reports of the polygraph, narco-analysis and brain- mapping tests conducted on the three domestic helps – Krishna, Rajkumar, Vijay Mandal — who were at one time being taken as suspects in the case.
"It is evident that the petitioners have been adopting dilatory tactics at every moment," SC had noted.
CBI had told SC in October this year that after it had, by April 24, 2013, completed the process of putting all its 39 witnesses before the Ghaziabad trial along with the evidence in the case, the Talwars submitted around 22 applications with an aim to delay the proceedings.
On April 30 this year, Talwars had filed a plea seeking summons to 13 persons, including former Uttar Pradesh ADG Arun Kumar, as witnesses. That pleas was rejected by the trial court on May 4.
Thereafter, on May 7, the Talwars also filed another petition in the trial court seeking a stay on the recording of their statements under Section 313 of CrPC.
The above application had been rejected the very next day.
Also in May, the trial court rejected the duo's plea seeking time to move Allahabad High Court. In this case, the dentist couple was directed to record their statements by May 17 unless they wanted their bail to be cancelled.
Again, on June 4, the Talwars filed a petition in trial court seeking sufficient time to prepare their list of defence witnesses.
On June 11, they filed a petition seeking the narco and polygraph test reports of Vijay Mandal, Krishna and Rajkumar.
When, on June 12, the Talwars submitted a list of 13 defence witnesses, the trial court allowed seven to record their statements.
On June 13, CBI told the trial court that that the Talwars were indirectly trying to get the double murder case re- investigated through submission of these applications.
But applications from the defendants continued and on July 16 they applied to have an witness — Mahender, a carpenter — dropped.
The duo then asked court to give them sufficient time to produce defence witness through a fresh petition on July 22.
Besides, on August 6, they filed a fresh application in court seeking all DNA test reports in the case.
On September 30, the Talwars submitted a further list of 13 witnesses, including senior journalist Nalini Singh and seven CBI officials, to a special CBI court. But this application as also rejected by the court.
The CBI prosecutor in the case, RK Saini, had repeatedly raised the issue in court of allegedly delaying tactics employed by the Talwars in the case.
Comments
0 comment