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 who is serving a life term, on a plea that he had visited hospitals 87 times by misusing his financial and political influence.
The court's order came on the petition of Neelam Katara, mother of the victim, seeking a direction to the jail authorities and AIIMS to produce entire record relating to Yadav's ailments and his visits to the premier hospital....
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09:31 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant bail to Vishal Yadav, who along with his cousin Vikas, is serving life term for killing Nitish Katara in 2002. A bench of justices BS Chauhan and TS Thakur, however, asked the Delhi High Court to decide expeditiously the appeals filed by Vishal and his cousin Vikas challenging their conviction and sentencing by the trial court for killing Katara as...
01:59 PM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea of Vikas Yadav, serving life sentence along with cousin Vishal for killing MBA graduate Nitish Katara in Febraury 2002, for an early hearing of his appeal against the trial court's conviction and sentence order. A bench of justices AK Sikri and ML Mehta dismissed the application filed by Vikas through counsel Sumit Verma for early hearing of his appeal,...
09:54 PM, Sep 14, 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
Vikas, son of a controversial politician is accused of murdering Nitish Katara. ...
12:16 PM, Oct 23, 2009
The Delhi High Court has dismissed their bail pleas. ...
05:02 PM, Aug 07, 2009
Vikas Yadav has blamed the media for swaying his trial. ...
06:24 PM, Aug 04, 2008
Birmingham: West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin was fined 20 per cent of his match fee by the International Cricket Council on Monday for violating its code of conduct during the drawn third Test against England at Edgabston. After making only his second Test hundred on day four, Ramdin produced a piece of paper from his pocket and displayed a message that read: Yeah Viv talk nah. Ramdin pleaded guilty to...
10:11 PM, May 30, 2008
Chennai: A young Tamil Nadu cricketer, PK Dharma, has been found dead at his residence in Kodambakkaram and local authorities believe it to be a suicide case. Dharma, 20, was found hanging in his house on Sunday afternoon a day after participating in a three-day Tamil Nadu Cricketers' Association first-division final for his club, Globe Trotters, against Vijay CC at the Chidambaram Stadium. According to reports, Dharma’s body was found...
08:38 PM, May 30, 2008
Dubai: Nigel Llong of England is the latest addition to the Elite Panel of ICC umpires, replacing Billy Doctrove who last week announced his retirement from international cricket. Llong will join the Elite Panel for the 2012-13 season, starting July 1, and will join 13 other international umpires at the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka from September 18 to October 7. Llong, 43, has been a familiar face in...
08:26 PM, May 30, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan legspinner Danish Kaneria will appear before the England and Wales Cricket Board [ECB] hearing into the spot-fixing from June 18 and will leave for London with his lawyer on Thursday. The ECB committee has charged Kaneria and his former Essex team-mate Mervyn Westfield with spot-fixing. Danish has finally got his visa to travel to London and is scheduled to fly out on the June 14 with his lawyer...
08:03 PM, May 30, 2008
Birmingham: Denesh Ramdin said criticism from West Indies hero Vivian Richards helped him score a superb century against England in the third Test at Edgbaston here on Sunday. Having reached three figures on the fourth day – only his second hundred at this level – West Indies wicketkeeper Ramdin produced a piece of paper from his pocket on which the words Yeah Viv Talk Nah were written. That was in...
05:36 PM, May 30, 2008
Pallekele: Allrounder Thisara Perera claimed career-best figures of 6 for 44 to help Sri Lanka comfortably beat Pakistan by 76 runs in the second one-day international and square the series 1-1 at Pallekele International Stadium on Saturday. After opener Tillakaratne Dilshan slammed his 13th one-day century, Perera ripped through the Pakistan batting lineup to claim the best bowling figures by a Sri Lankan in ODIs against Pakistan. Set a target...
01:02 PM, May 30, 2008
Birmingham: Rain saw play abandoned without a ball being bowled for the second successive day in the third and final Test between England and the West Indies at Edgbaston here on Friday. It was the first time since 1964, during an Ashes clash between England and Australia at Lord's, that the first two days of a Test in England been washed out without a ball being bowled. After a fourth...
07:31 AM, May 30, 2008
Lahore: Former PCB chairman Ijaz Butt on Sunday came down heavily on the Pakistan cricket team that suffered a 37-run defeat in the first Twenty20 against Sri Lanka, saying the selectors made a wrong decision by naming Mohammad Hafeez as the captain of the side in place of Misbah-ul-Haq. Wrong [selection of] captain, wrong selection [overall], especially of the wicketkeeper [Shakeel Ansar] led to the shameful defeat against Sri Lanka, ...
02:51 AM, May 29, 2008
Melbourne: Cricket Australia (CA) is facing a serious backlash from professional cricketers over contractual negotiations a month before Australia's ODI series in England. According to Fox Sports, Australian cricketers are considering going on strike due to concerns over how much they will be paid and in which state they will be training in a month from now. The players and CA management are locked in a stand-off surrounding the first...
11:52 PM, May 28, 2008
Dubai: Hosts Sri Lanka will swing into ICC World Twenty20 mood as they take on Pakistan in a two-match international series with both teams looking to move up the ICC T20 Championship table. Sri Lanka, who will host ICC World Twenty20, need to win the series 2-0 if they are to move up from third place in the ICC T20 Championship table. The two teams will also be keen to...
12:19 PM, May 28, 2008
Dhaka: India's business giant Sahara Group is set to become the new sponsor of the Bangladesh cricket team after offering $9.4 million over four years in a tender process that ended on Wednesday, officials said. We are delighted to announce that Sahara has appeared the highest bidder to become new sponsor of our national team, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president AHM Mustafa Kamal told reporters. They have offered $9.4 million...
12:07 PM, May 28, 2008
Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided in principle to conduct the upcoming ODI series against Australia in the United Arab Emirates, immediately after Eid which will be celebrated around August 22. Intikhab Alam, the PCB director (operation international cricket), said he would soon visit the UAE to finalise the venues. Alam was of the view that the series should be converted into a Twenty20 series of five or seven...
12:07 PM, May 28, 2008
New Delhi: An Indian engineer will learn on Thursday whether his challenge to the Duckworth/Lewis method – a controversial but common system used for determining the winner of rain-affected matches – has been successful. The system, developed by Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, was first introduced at the international level in 1996. It uses mathematical formula to calculate the winning target for the batting team, when rain reduces playing time...
10:39 AM, May 28, 2008
