New Delhi: Seeking death penalty for the convicts, police on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that Nitish Katara and Bharti Yadav were in an "intense relationship" and her family's opposition to their friendship led to Katara's murder in 2002.
Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan told a division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice JR Midha that the disapproval of Bharti's family of the relationship was the motive behind the murder of Katara, son of an Indian Administrative Service officer.
Bharti is the daughter of former MP DP Yadav.
Krishnan sought enhancement of the sentence of the convicts and said his was "an appeal for enhancement of the sentence where court can give death penalty. And if the court does not give death penalty, my appeal would press for the maximum punishment"....
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10:14 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Vishal Yadav, serving life term along with his cousin Vikas for killing Nitish Katara in 2002, on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that an "atrocious" charge of kidnapping had been framed by the trial judge despite the fact that the victim was a major and contemplating marriage. "An absurd charge of kidnapping had been framed against Vishal and others. This is an atrocious charge and it is...
07:12 PM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: In an embarrassment for the Delhi Police, it has come to light in an official report that its men colluded and aided murder convicts Vikas and Vishal Yadav, who are serving a life sentence for the murder of Nitish Katara. According to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) records, Vikas was missing from his hospital room on Diwali night in October 2011. Now CNN-IBN has accessed the...
07:03 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a sensational twist to the Nitish Katara murder of 2002 in which Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav were convicted and sentenced to life, the latter has sought a retrial of the case, claiming that he was not seen with Katara before the murder. Vishal Yadav's lawyer Ram Jethmalani told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that Katara was seen with Vikas Yadav, and not Vishal. The court...
01:38 PM, Jul 05, 2012
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
Mumbai: An exhibition of photographs capturing moments from the daily life of Anna Hazare will be held at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh from April 8-14. The photographs were clicked by Mumbai resident Vishal Yadav who works for a Hindi news channel as a driver of Outdoor Broadcasting (OB) van. Hazare himself will inaugurate the exhibition on Sunday. "Before he started his protest at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi (over Lokpal...
02:42 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: In a major setback for Nitish Katara killers Vikas and Vishal Yadav a medical board at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) says that the duo is not suffering from any medical condition and don't require hospitalisation. A board of 10 doctors examined Vikas and Vishal between February 9 and 13, 2012 as per the directions of the Delhi High Court and found that both of...
06:17 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered a medical board to be formed to investigate why Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav needed to make several visits to AIIMS Hospital and Batra Hospital. The duo are murder convicts in the Nitish Katara case. 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...
06:07 PM, Mar 23, 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: The Yadav brothers, convicted in the murder of Nitish Katara, have been finding an easy get-away in hospitals. Fresh data reveals that Vikas and Vishal Yadav made 66 hospital visits from February 2010 to date. CNN-IBN had reported on Monday that the brothers made 85 hospital visits between May 2008 and February 2010. Yadav brothers have been out of Tihar 151 times since May 2008, for varying durations,...
08:15 PM, Nov 08, 2011
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. ...
10:19 PM, Nov 07, 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: 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
The Delhi High Court has dismissed their bail pleas. ...
05:02 PM, Aug 07, 2009
Ajay Katara is a key witness in the Nitish Katara murder case. ...
12:22 PM, Oct 03, 2008
Yadav cousins were pronounced guilty for the kidnapping and murder of Katara. ...
01:38 PM, Sep 05, 2008
Vikas Yadav has blamed the media for swaying his trial. ...
06:24 PM, Aug 04, 2008
