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| Vikas Yadav, cousin Vishal held gui |
| A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted Vikas and his cousin Vishal Yadav in the sensational six-year-old Nitish Katara murder case.
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| INDIA
, 28-May-2008
8:12:8 AM |
| Delhi court on Wednesday convicted Vikas and his cousin Vishal Yadav in the sensational six-year-old Nitish Katara murder case.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur held Vikas, son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal guilty of murder, abduction and destruction of evidence in the case. The sentence is expected to be pronounced on May 30.
The court rejected a plea of Vikas that the pronouncement of verdict be stayed as the Delhi High Court is likely to hear his application seeking stay on trial court proceedings today.
The judge then posed a query to defence counsel G K Bharti as to whether the High Court had stayed the proceedings in this court.
Finding the reply in negative, the court straight away pronounced the verdict, saying, ''I hold Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav guilty under Section 302, 364, 201 and 34 of the IPC.''
Vikas and his cousin were then taken away to the lock-up.
Fight for justice
In 2002, 24-year-old Katara's body was found in a sugarcane field near Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, and he had been repeatedly attacked with a hammer and his body then set on fire.
The Nitish Katara case has also been about a mother's relentless fight for justice. In the last six years Neelam Katara has sat through 400 hearings, through adjournments, delays and witnesses turning hostile.
Today Neelam Katara believes justice has prevailed.
''Nitish would be happy,'' said Neelam Katara, Nitish Katara's mother.
Nitish Katara's younger brother Nitin Katara also spoke about their fight, he was 21 when his elder brother was killed.
However, Vikas Yadav's father DP Yadav said he was surprised at the verdict.
''We will appeal against the verdict,'' said D P Yadav, Vikas Yadav's father.
''I was surprised when my advocate told me that the lower court had declared its verdict.
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