
New Delhi: Brothers Vikas and Vishal Yadav, convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara in 2008, and who managed to stay out of the Tihar jail for over 151 days since then now face flak from an independent inquiry panel. Commissioned on Delhi High Court's orders, the panel of doctors led by a brigadier stated that the brothers' medical records do not justify lengthy hospital stays. The report accessed by...

09:20 PM, May 28, 2012

New Delhi: In what may prove to be more trouble for Nitish Katara's killers, CNN-IBN has accessed the Army Medical Board report on their medical records that questions their prolonged stays in hospitals using flimsy medical grounds and staying out of jail thus. In November 2011, CNN-IBN had reported how Vikas and Vishal Yadav, convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara, were regularly out of jail on flimsy medical grounds....

06:15 PM, May 28, 2012

New Delhi: A Delhi court is expected to hear Nitish Katara's mother's complaint against convicts Vikas and Vishal Yadav on Friday. Katara's mother Neelam Katara had earlier claimed they have been enjoying preferential treatment at Tihar Jail. CNN-IBN had reported that both the accused had made 151 medical outings in four years. The Delhi High Court on February 1 asked Tihar Jail authorities to produce medical records of Vikas Yadav...

09:31 AM, Feb 24, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Tihar Jail authorities to produce medical records of Vikas Yadav, serving life term along with two others in the Nitish Katara murder case, on a plea that he had visited hospitals 87 times by misusing his financial and political influence. "The Jail Superintendent is hereby directed to produce all the relevant medical records of convict Vikas Yadav," a bench of justices...

12:50 PM, Feb 01, 2012

New Delhi: Vishal Yadav, who along with his cousin Vikas, is serving life term for killing MBA graduate Nitish Katara in 2002, on Friday moved the Supreme Court for bail. Pleading for bail, he submitted in his petition that he was not keeping well and there was no "direct evidence" against him and the lower court had convicted him on the basis of circumstantial evidence. Vishal, a kin of controversial...

08:21 PM, Nov 11, 2011

New Delhi: Vikas Yadav, convicted for killing Nitish Katara, on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail for four days. Yadav's lawyer told the court that Vikas needed to attend to some property related matters. Hearing the plea, the Delhi High Court asked the Delhi Police to reply to the bail application by November 22. In the bail plea, Yadav sought an order suspending the life sentence, awarded to...

05:44 PM, Nov 09, 2011

New Delhi: The killers of Nitish Katara, Vikas and Vishal Yadav, sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, have been misusing the system to stay in government hospital for extended periods. The Yadav brothers, who are sons of former MP and Uttar Pradesh strongman D P Yadav, have enjoyed 85 medical outings in the last three and half years. Recently, Vikas Yadav had spent 25 days in 'A' category luxury...

06:05 PM, Nov 07, 2011

New Delhi: Gangster Sukhdev Pehalwan, the third accused in the Nitish Katara kidnapping-cum-murder case, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi Court. The punishment was pronounced by Additional Sessions Judge JR Aryan who on July 6 had held him guilty for helping former Rajya Sabha member DP Yadav's son Vikas Yadav and nephew Vishal Yadav in abducting and killing Katara in 2002 for being friendly to their...

04:12 PM, Jul 12, 2011

New Delhi: A Delhi sessions court on Wednesday held Sukhdev Pehelwan guilty in the Nitish Katara murder. It also held him guilty of destruction of evidence and kidnapping. Sukhdev Pehelwan was the third accused in the murder of Katara. He was present along with Vikas and Vishal Yadav during the murder. Nitish Katara went missing on February 16, 2002. He was last seen at a friend's wedding in Ghaziabad with...

03:25 PM, Jul 06, 2011

Mother of murdered business executive says she doesn't fear responsibility. ...

06:09 PM, Feb 24, 2009

Bharti Yadav, the key witness in the Nitish Katara murder case has collected her passport and visa from a Delhi court. ...

05:44 PM, Dec 12, 2006

Lawyer for key witness in the Nitish Katara murder case says his client fears that she may be arrested. ...

09:25 PM, Nov 02, 2006