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A Ghaziabad sessions court on Thursday deferred the hearing of the Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj double murder case till May 9. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to provide more information in connection with the case at the next hearing of the court. The development came a day after Nupur Talwar, the prime accused in the murder case, moved the Supreme Court for bail. The apex court will take up her plea and her review petition on Friday. Earlier, in the sessions court, Nupur's lawyer Parakshit Luthra had argued that interim bail should be granted to her because if she is jailed, it would affect her reputation. The lawyer said that bail should be granted till the time proper hearing of bail application was done while claiming that the CBI itself has said that it did not have enough evidence against her. Her bail application before the special court was rejected following opposition from the CBI. She was sent to the Dasna Jail and spent Monday night there. Dasna Jail Supritendant Viresh Raj Sharma had earlier said, "We don''t have any order from the court to send her to the court today. If the order comes, we will send her. As far as her warrant is concerned, we will send her to the court on May 3 if she doesn''t get the bail." Earlier, the Ghaziabad court had issued a non-bailable warrant against Nupur after she failed to appear before a special CBI court despite a deadline given to her. Nupur and Rajesh Talwar have been accused by the CBI of murdering their teenaged daughter Aarushi in May 2008. Aarushi was found dead inside her Noida residence with her throat slit. The body of the Talwars' domestic servant Hemraj was recovered from the terrace the next day.

Aarushi murder case deferred, next hearing on May 9