‘Peepli Live’ redux: Waiting for Talwars outside Dasna Jail

Dasna (UP), October 13 : A large crowd of mediapersons camped outside Dasna Jail from early morning on Friday, keeping a close watch on every movement in and out of the high-security prison that had housed Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for four years. The crowds, including curious onlookers, grew as the day progressed, everybody waiting for the Talwars to walk out of jail and back into the unrelenting media spotlight. The Allahabad High Court on Thursday acquitted them in the 2008 murders of their daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj, leaving the question, whodunit. As the sensational murder case, which continues to remain a mystery, dominated television news and newspaper headlines once again, the media descended outside the jail hoping to capture every moment of their release–and any bits of information about their life inside jail.