New Delhi, March 25: Vikas Yadav, undergoing life imprisonment along with cousin Vishal for killing MBA graduate Nitish Katara in February 2002, moved the Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking interim bail to attend his brother’s marriage.
Brother’s wedding
Seeking bail for three months, Vikas said in the application that his younger brother Kunal’s marriage is fixed for April 29 and the rituals will start from April 14, the date fixed for engagement ceremony.
He also said in the bail plea, likely to be heard on Friday by a Division Bench of the Court headed by Justice B. D. Ahmed, that he would like to meet his grandfather who would perform the ceremony being the seniormost member of the family.
In August 2009, the Bench, which has been hearing the appeal filed Vikas and Vishal challenging the trial court’s conviction order, rejected their bail plea and said “although both the accused persons were in custody for past several years, their incarceration cannot be a ground by itself for grant of bail.”
In May 2008, a city court sentenced 37-year-old Vikas, son of controversial Uttar Pradesh politician D. P. Yadav, and his 36-year-old cousin Vishal for killing Nitish, an IAS officer’s son. According to the prosecution, Vikas and Vishal had kidnapped Nitish from a marriage party in Ghaziabad on the night of February 16, 2002, and killed him as they were opposed to Nitish’s intimacy with their sister Bharati.
-Agencies