The Ghaziabad session court judgment has been published in the Aarushi Talwar murder case, after the handed down life sentences to both her parents today [IBN Live / WSJ / BBC].
The CBI special court’s additional sessions judge held:
Now is the time to say omega in this case. To perorate, it is proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused are the perpetrators of the crime in question. The parents are the best protectors of their own children- that is the order of human nature but there have been freaks in the history of mankind when the father and mother became the killer of their own progeny. They have extirpated their own daughter who had hardly seen 14 summers of her life and the servant without compunction from terrestrial terrain in breach of Commandment ‘Thou shall not kill’ and injunction of Holy Quran- “Take not life, which God has made sacred”.They are also found guilty of secreting and obliterating the evidence of the commission of the murders to screen themselves from legal punishment.
Reader comments and analysis invited in the comments below.
IBN Live has compiled 26 reasons why the CBI court has convicted the Talwars.
[PDF link to judgment via Ghaziabad court, or on Scribd – hat-tip to LI commenter Midhun Kumar Allu for spotting it first]
Aarushi Talwar Murder Case - Judgment - Nov 26 2013 - Sessions Trial Case by Midhun Kumar Allu
Comments
This isn't the Supreme court of India!!
Criticism for the sake of criticism is not a good thing. And criticism using the veil of anonymity in an online blog is not the sign of courage.
Jai
Wish the Indian judges could write crisp, concise judgement like their American and English counterparts... but then again the judges in India write for Indian public who may not be aware the many laws and reasons behind the law...
* The judge seems to go above and beyond his duty [to the extent of (nearly?) abandoning it] to assert that the obviously tutored maid is speaking the truth. How the fallacious conclusion that nobody else was present during that night is reached... is chilling. The rest is history.
* The curious case of the Hyderabad lab's convenient "typo errors" ...as if on cue from the CBI, amazing feat ! And many other twists and turns...
Lastly, mystery of mysteries... What was the motive ? (I'm referring to the "murder of justice", thanks to a writer on Firstpost.com for that expression). How could this crime ever happen ? Amazing.
Not sure that this will be overturned on appeal, though ideally it must not even be a conviction at the trial court. The one way that the Talwars had to show that there might have been a friendly entry without their knowledge, is the Krishna pillow cover from Krishna's room having Hemraj's blood on it. Allahabad HC and, I believe, even the SC took the side of the CBI which plastered over the gap with a letter claiming a 'typo' from CDFD Hyderabad. SC even famously said that the Talwars were 'trying last ditch efforts at saving a lost situation'. Now this makes the Talwars stand in the same position as in the trial court - of there being no way to even raise, leave alone prove the possibility of an intruder - friendly or otherwise.
Take a look at the the nebulous crime from its onset on the night of 15th May, 2008 : http://homegrown.co.in/infographic-the-arushi-talwar-murder-case-chronicled-and-decoded/