The Supreme Court, on Monday, awarded a 25-year jail term to Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal in the sensational Nitish Katara murder case. The SC also awarded a 20-year jail term to co-convict Sukhdev Pehalwan in the case
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The Supreme Court, on Monday, awarded a 25-year jail term to Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal in the sensational Nitish Katara murder case. The SC also awarded a 20-year jail term to co-convict Sukhdev Pehalwan in the case.
In February 2002, Katara was abducted and murdered by politician DP Yadav's son Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav for having intimate relations with Vikas Yadav's sister Bharti. The Yadavs never approved of the relationship between the two, and Katara received threats several times.
On February 17, Nitish and Bharti attended a common friend's wedding, where Yadav’s brother, Vikas, and a cousin were present. From there, Katara was taken for a drive by Yadav's brothers, and did not return. Three days later, Katara's body was found near a highway. He had been battered to death with a hammer, and then set aflame.
Rejecting a plea for death penalty, Delhi High Court last year enhanced the sentence for Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal from life imprisonment to 25 years without remission for the murder of Nitish Katara and five more years for destruction of evidence in the case.
A special bench of justices Gita Mittal and J R Midha also imposed a penalty of Rs 50 lakh each on Vikas, son of UP politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal for the murder.
Later, in the same year, the Supreme Court rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death for Vishal and Vikas Yadav.
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