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Friday, May 13, 2005

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Court notice on bail plea of Katara case accused

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh police on a bail application by Vishal Yadav, one of the accused in the Nitish Katara murder case and nephew of the former Rajya Sabha MP, D.P. Yadav.

Issuing the notice, Justice B.D. Ahmed directed the Uttar Pradesh police to file a reply to the bail application by May 30.

Appearing for Vishal Yadav, R.K. Jain, submitted that his client had been in judicial custody for long and enlarging him on bail would not affect the trial.

A Delhi court had last week refused to grant bail to Vishal Yadav and Vikas Yadav, the main accused in the case and son of D.P. Yadav.

Rejecting their bail applications, the Additional Sessions Judge, D.S. Poweriya, conducting trial of the case, had said there was sufficient material on record against the accused persons.

The High Court had last week stayed the trial proceedings in the case till further orders.

Justice H.R. Malhotra stayed the on-going recording of statements of the accused persons in the case on a petition by Neelam Katara, whose son Nitish Katara was allegedly murdered by Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav in February 2002.

Mr. Justice Malhotra directed the trial court to keep in abeyance the order allowing the prosecution in the case to drop Ms. Bharti Yadav, daughter of the former Rajya Sabha MP, D.P. Yadav, as a prosecution witness and not to record the statements of the accused till further orders.

The prosecution had last month dropped Ms. Bharti as a prosecution saying that the British government had refused to help the Indian authorities in her extradition to the country on the ground that Ms. Bharti had no case pending against her in that country.

Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav are facing trial for allegedly kidnapping and later killing Nitish Katara in Ghaziabad in February 2002.

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