Vikas, Vishal Yadav found guilty in Nitish Katara murder case
Patiala Court House in Delhi has on Wednesday convicted Vikas & his cousin Vishal Yadav in the sensational six-year-old Nitish Katara murder case. Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur held Vikas, son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav & his cousin Vishal guilty of murder, abduction & destruction of evidence in the case. The sentence is expected to be pronounced on May 30.
The court has rejected a plea of Vikas that the pronouncement of verdict be stayed as the Delhi High Court is likely to hear his application seeking a stay on trial court proceedings on Wednesday. The judge then posed a query to defence counsel G K Bharti as to whether the High Court had stayed the proceedings in this court.
Finding the reply in negative, the court straight away pronounced the verdict, saying, “I hold Vikas Yadav & Vishal Yadav guilty under Section 302, 364, 201 & 34 of the IPC”. Katara, son of an IAS officer, was allegedly killed by accused Vikas & his cousin Vishal Yadav on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002. They had allegedly abducted the victim from a marriage function in Ghaziabad. According to the prosecution, the accused had killed the victim as they did not approve of his alleged relations with their sister Bharati Yadav.
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