Supreme Court rejects Vikas Yadav bail petition

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an interim bail to Vikas Yadav, serving a 30-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case. Vikas had sought interim bail to fulfill his business obligations.

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and C. Nagappan, without granting relief said the appeal against the Delhi high court order awarding 30-years jail term without remission will be listed for hearing on August 29.

Senior advocate U.R. Lalit appearing for Yadav, son of former MP D.P. Yadav, said the application for interim bail has been moved as he has already undergone over 14 years of sentence.

The Delhi high court on February 6 rejected the plea for death sentence and had enhanced the life imprisonment of Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal to 30 years in jail without any remission in the killing of Katara. The high court had held that the murder of Katara, who was in love with Vikas’s sister, was an “honour killing” which was done in a very “carefully planned and premeditated” manner with “extreme vengeance”. Yadav’s acquaintance Sukhdev Yadav alias Pehelwan was also awarded an enhanced life sentence of 25 years.