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Order on Bharti Yadav reserved

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No ambiguity in the law on it, says Chief Public prosecutor

NEW DELHI: Chief Public Prosecutor B.S. Joon on Wednesday told a trial court here that Bharti Yadav, a key prosecution witness in the Nitish Katara murder case, could be declared a proclaimed offender as there was no ambiguity in the law on it.

Mr. Joon made this submission in response to a query by Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur in which she had asked him to show the law to her under which a witness could be declared a proclaimed offender. Mr. Joon also submitted copies of two judgments to the court in support of his argument. Later, Ms. Kaur reserved orders for July 22 on the Delhi police's request to declare Ms. Bharti a proclaimed offender in the case.

The police had moved the application for declaring the witness a proclaimed offender when Ms. Bharti's father, former Rajya Sabha member D.P. Yadav, expressed his inability to provide her London address to the court.

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