Avirook Sen - Aarushi

Dr Rajesh Talwar, Dr Nupur Talwar: Successful dentists who lived in Noida. In their late forties. Both convicted for the 2008 murder of their only daughter Aarushi and their manservant Hemraj.

Dr Dinesh Talwar, Dr Vandana Talwar: Rajeshs elder brother and his wife.

Group Captain (retd) Bhalachandra Chitnis, his wife Lata: Nupurs parents. Live in the same housing complex as Rajesh and Nupur in an identical flat.

Ajay Chaddha: A businessman and close family friend.

Drs Praful and Anita Durrani: Close family friends, also live in Noida. They would go on holidays together with the Talwars. They employed Rajkumar, one of the suspects.

Vidushi Durrani, Fiza Jha: Aarushis friends and schoolmates. Vidushi is Praful and Anitas daughter.

Preeti Singh: Ghaziabad magistrate who rejected the CBIs closure report and sent the case to trial.

Judge Shyam Lal: Trial judge in the CBIs fast-track court in Ghaziabad. Retired five days after delivering his judgement. Now practises law in Allahabad.

Tanveer Ahmed Mir: Delhi criminal lawyer. Came into the case a few months after the trial had begun. Remains the Talwars lawyer in the appeal stage.

R.K. Saini: Public prosecutor for the CBI.

Satyaketu Singh, Manoj Sisodia: Ghaziabad lawyers retained by the Talwars.

Rebecca John: Senior advocate. Advised the Talwars from 2011. Appeared for the Talwars in the Allahabad High Court.

Harish Salve, U. Lalit, K.V. Vishwanathan: Appeared for the Talwars in the Supreme Court at various stages.

Sidharth Luthra: Additional Solicitor General. Appeared for the CBI in the Supreme Court.

Krishna: Rajesh Talwars assistant at his dental clinic. Originally from Nepal. Lived with a relative in L-14 Jalvayu Vihar, a few houses away from the Talwars. Knew Hemraj well.

Rajkumar: Worked in the Durranis home. Knew the Talwars very well because of the closeness between the families.

Vijay Mandal: Worked for Puneesh Tandon, the Talwars neighbour. Lived in the garage below the Talwars flat.

Arun Kumar: Deputy inspector general who headed the first CBI team. Returned to his home state, Uttar Pradesh, in 2009.

A.G.L. Kaul: Additional superintendent of police. Became investigating officer after Kumar left. Reported to Superintendent of Police Neelabh Kishore.

Inspector Arvind Jaitley: Kauls man Friday.

Vijay Shanker: CBI director when the case broke. Retired in July 2008.

Ashwani Kumar: Took over from Shanker. Handed over to A.P. Singh in late 2010.

Dr M.S. Dahiya: Deputy director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Gandhinagar. Reconstructed the crime; introduced the idea of dressing up of the crime scene; believed the Talwars committed an honour killing and that Aarushi was engaged in intercourse when she was murdered.

Dr S.L. Vaya: Dahiyas former colleague. The behavioural scientist oversaw the scientific tests done on the Talwars and one of the servants. Believed that the Talwars were innocent.

Dr Sunil Dohare: Aarushis post-mortem doctor. Made six changes to his original report over three years.

Dr Naresh Raj: Hemrajs post-mortem doctor. Claimed a surgical instrument may have been the murder weapon two years after his post-mortem report.

Dr B.K. Mohapatra: Forensic scientist at CFSL, the CBIs forensics department. Insisted that Hemrajs pillow cover was seized from Aarushis room, suggesting Hemraj was killed there. Eventually admitted this wasnt the case.

Bharti Mandal: The Talwars temporary servant. It was her testimony that helped establish that the Talwars werent locked in their flat from the outside but instead had locked the flat from the insideand were therefore the killers.

Umesh Sharma: The Talwars driver. Listed as a prosecution witness who was supposed to identify the golf club that allegedly delivered the fatal blows. He turned hostile, testifying for the Talwars, alleging he was beaten in the CBI office. Remains in the Talwars employ.

K.K. Gautam: Retired deputy superintendent in Noida police. Was responsible for the discovery of Hemrajs body. His CBI testimony in 2008 claimed that Hemraj had visitors in his room. In 2010 his new testimony to the CBI denied the earlier statement. He established the honour killing motive in the trial court when he testified that the Talwars had asked him to manipulate the post-mortem report so that it didnt record rape. Post-retirement, he entered the field of education. He runs Invertis University in Bareilly.