Aarushi murder case: Victim's mother gets bail

The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted parole to Nupur Talwar, who is serving a life term for the murder of her 13-year-old daughter Aarushi Talwar, for three weeks to visit her mother in Noida. She has to keep the police informed about her movements regularly. Nupur and her husband Rajesh Talwar were convicted for the killings of their daughter Aarushi and their domestic help, Hemraj, by the CBI court in 2013. Both of themwere sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. Aarushi was discovered with her throat slit in her bed at the Talwars' Noida apartment just days before her 14th birthday. The main suspect was the family's missing domestic help Hemraj until his corpse was found on their terrace. Investigators say nobody broke into the Talwars' home and it was an insider job.

But they also said that they did not have evidence to prove who did it or what was the motive. The case was first being investigated by the Noida police but it was transferred to the CBI following pressure. And after five years of investigation, the couple were found guilty of the murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment. They have been in jail since 2013. They have appealed against their conviction. What became India's most compelling whodunnit has inspired a book and a Bollywood film, "Talvar", released last year. The book has excerpts from Rajesh Talwar's diary in jail, in which he writes about the night of the murder: "If only I would have gotten up...I could not even save my dear Aaru."