The Supreme Court on Monday admitted two petitions against the Allahabad High Court’s decision to acquit Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar of the murder of their daughter Aarushi and employee Hemraj, PTI reported. The petitions were filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Hemraj’s wife Khumkala Banjade.

The Central Bureau of Investigation had moved the Supreme Court in March after the Law Ministry granted the agency permission to challenge Rajesh and Nupur Talwar’s acquittal in the 2008 twin murder cases. The ministry had advised the agency to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court. In its petition, the CBI has said that the Allahabad High Court’s clean chit to Talwars is wrong on “many counts”, NDTV reported.

Hemraj’s wife had moved the top court in December. Banjade said that the High Court had accepted her husband was murdered and so the CBI must investigate the case and not abandon its responsibility. “We’ve come to the Supreme Court for justice... the High Court freed them [Talwars], they are killers...they should be punished,” she had said in December, according to NDTV.

The Allahabad High Court had pronounced its verdict in October after pointing to loopholes in the CBI’s investigation. The Talwars were released from Dasna jail in Ghaziabad a few days later.

On May 16, 2008, Aarushi Talwar was found murdered inside her bedroom in the Talwars’ flat in Noida. The police initially suspected Hemraj of being the murderer, but found his decomposed body inside a locked room on the terrace a day later. The police then began to suspect the Talwars and said Rajesh Talwar had murdered the two after finding them in an “objectionable” position.