Gaya: Life term for Rocky Yadav, 2 others in Aditya Sachdeva murder case

Gaya: A Gaya District court on Wednesday sentenced Rocky Yadav and two others to life imprisonment for murdering a teenaged student Aditya Sachdeva in the infamous road rage case.

According to Public Prosecutor, all three have been convicted under sections 302(murder) and 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for the fatal murder of Aditya.

Rocky’s father Bindi Yadav was convicted under section 212 and 177 of the IPC for “concealment of facts and misleading the court”.

“The entire family is satisfied, we are thankful to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who had assured us justice in the case,” Aditya’s mother Chand Sachdeva told reporters in Gaya.

The court had on August 31 pronounced Rocky and others guilty of murdering Aditya Sachdeva. Rocky, the son of suspended JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi had killed Aditya for overtaking his SUV on the outskirts of Gaya on May 7 last year.

According to police reports, Aditya and four of his friends were returning home from Bodh Gaya when the incident occurred. Aditya succumbed to his injuries immediately after Rocky shot him in the head.

Sources said the autopsy report of Aditya Sachdeva confirmed that his vertebrae were found fractured and he died due to brain injury.

The police, investigating the case, later found that the bullet that killed Aditya was fired from Rocky’s pistol.

According to Gaya Public Prosecutor, Sartaj Ali Khan, “the probe in the case was carried out in a scientific manner".

Rocky had surrendered in a local court in Gaya in 2016 and granted bail by the Patna High Court on October 19. The bail was challenged in the Supreme Court.

He surrendered again in the court on October 29, 2016, a day after the Supreme Court stayed the bail granted to him by Patna High Court. The Supreme Court had fixed September 5, 2017, as the deadline for the trial in the case.

The state government had set up a special investigating team to look into the case. Rocky was arrested on May 10 last year from his father’s factory situated near Bodh Gaya.

The police had also arrested his father Bindi and his mother’s body guard, who was with him during the incident. His mother Manorama Devi was suspended from the JD(U) for misleading police during the investigation.