Aarushi Hemraj murders: Nupur, Rajesh Talwar return to freedom, and uncertain afterlife

On Monday, at the Ghaziabad District Court, I did my best to keep up with Kapil, an assistant to Manoj Sisodia, one of the lawyers who defended Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the special CBI court there. He was carrying two copies of the same judgment, about 550 pages all told. A passerby said: 'Bada bhari file le jaa rahey ho bhai.' Another said: 'Badi jaldi mein ho, hai kya?'

Kapil had been doing this run from chamber to court to chamber for about an hour. Each second he saved would be a second less in Dasna jail for the Talwars. But this was Ghaziabad and it set its own rules, its own pace. The 'certified copy' of the judgment had to reach the appropriate CBI court, where a clerk would certify that it was indeed certified. It would then be taken to the computer section (where the judgment was available online anyway) for