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Ghaziabad/New Delhi: Rajesh Talwar, who was set free by a Ghaziabad court on Friday after being named a suspect in the murders of his daughter Arushi and domestic help Hemraj, will be released from detention on Saturday.

Sandeep Mittal, a relative of Talwar, told reporters outside Dasna Jail that, “Rajesh will be released on Saturday”.

He said, “Rajesh could not be released from the jail today (Friday) because the court orders did not reach there by the designated time till 5.30 in the evening. But he will be released Saturday by 9 am.”

Accompanying Mittal to the jail, Talwar's wife Nupur Talwar and other relatives were anxiously waiting for his release but their hopes were dashed when the jail authorities informed them about the jail rules.

No prisoner or detainee is released from jail if the paper work for his release is not completed before dusk.

It was a case that gripped the conscience of the middle class India, hogging the headlines and choking the airwaves as it became the prime topic of dining room conversations, and even evening soap operas. Such was the obsession of urban India with the case that a filmmaker had even proposed making a TV serial on the murders.

On Friday, the CBI said Talwar's medical assistant Krishna and two other domestic helps, Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal – who lived in the neighbourhood – had killed Arushi and Hemraj.

Talwar, a prominent dentist, was arrested on May 23 as the prime suspect in the sensational murder case that came to light after Arushi's body was found in her parents' upscale Jalvayu Vihar neighbourhood in suburban Noida on May 16.

A senior Uttar Pradesh police officer said at the time that Talwar had killed his daughter in a fit of rage after he found her in an "objectionable but not compromising" position with the family's domestic help.

This raised a storm of protests, with Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury demanding the police officer's suspension.