It may be recollected that her husband Rajesh Talwar is also missing since yesterday. If Nupur is indeed arrested and jailed, this will be her first time behind bars, unlike her dentist husband who was jailed immediately after the Aarushi-Hemraj murders on May 16, 2008.

A new development yesterday in the case was that former solictor general Harish Salve is now the Talwars's senior counsel.