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May 14 will decide D-Day in Katara case

NEW DELHI: A court here on Tuesday set May 14 to decide the date for pronouncing the verdict in the six-year-old Nitish Katara murder case.

Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur fixed the date following conclusion of final arguments by both prosecution and defence in the case.

The court has also asked both the parties to file their written arguments by April 30.

According to the prosecution, prime accused Vikas Yadav and his cousin and co-accused Vishal Yadav along with others had kidnapped Nitish Katara from outside a marriage venue on the night of February 16, 2002, and got him killed by one Pehalwan.

The prime accused was opposed to his sister Bharti’s intimacy with Nitish, both of whom were students at the same management institute in Ghaziabad.

In its final argument, the defence had sought to punch holes in the prosecution theory that Vikas and Vishal had kidnapped Nitish in a Tata Safari and then got him killed by the third person.

It questioned the police claim that Nitish’s body and other articles were recovered from a particular point by the roadside at Khurja in Uttar Pradesh two days after Nitish went missing.

The defence had also questioned the tenability of key witness Ajay Katara’s statement that was recorded nearly a month after the incident. Ajay had told the police that he had seen the accused with the victim in the Tata Safari near the Hapur check-post on the fateful night.

However, during the rebuttal, the prosecution dismissed all these allegations. It claimed that the chain of events in the entire case was complete and unbroken. Further, the prosecution said Ajay’s witness was important and the delay did not affect its case.

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