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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (July 29) extended the interim bail granted to Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, by four weeks to attend to his ailing mother.
A bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh, while extending the interim bail to Vikas Yadav, directed him to approach the Delhi High Court for seeking remission of his sentence in the case.
Vikas Yadav’s request for remission was rejected by the Delhi prisons administration last year after his conduct was found to be unsatisfactory.
The top court granted Vikas Yadav interim bail on April 24 to meet his ailing mother and while granting him the relief, it had imposed conditions on him, including asking him to confine himself to his house in Ghaziabad and not to contact witnesses of the court, including Katara’s mother Neelam Katara. The top court later extended his interim bail from time-to-time on medical grounds.
Vikas Yadav, who is the son of Uttar Pradesh politician and former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) DP Yadav, was convicted and awarded life sentence for the kidnapping and murder of business executive Katara from a marriage party on the intervening night of February 16 and 17, 2002 and then killing him for his alleged affair with his sister Bharti Yadav. Vikas’s cousin cousin Vishal Yadav was also convicted and was awarded life sentence in the case. As per the prosecution, they were against Katara’s alleged affair with Bharti as they belonged to different castes.
The Delhi High Court upheld the trial court verdict awarding life imprisonment to Vikas and Vishal and specified a 30-year sentence, without any remission, to both of them. It awarded a 20-year jail term without any remission benefit to Pehalwan.
The apex court on October 3, 2016 awarded 25-year jail term without remission to Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav and co-convict Pehalwan was awarded a 20-year jail term for his role in the case.
