Katara case: Mother moves HC against Tihar’s decision

“As per the media reports,home department of Delhi government has written a letter to home secretary of Haryana seeking transfer of 55 convicts in the teachers’ recruitment scam to a jail in their state.

“A similar letter was also written to home secretary of UP for transfer of Vishal and Vikas” she said,adding that the reason cited by the authority for such recommendation was to cut the number of inmates in the “overcrowded” jail.

She sought a direction from the Delhi High Court,which is hearing final arguments of the appeals of Yadav duo,to call for the report from the Tihar Jail and also the office of the home secretary.

In the plea,she said that the Supreme Court had transferred the murder case from Ghaziabad to Delhi on the ground that father of Vikas Yadav –DP Yadav is a very influential person and there is an immense threat to the witnesses in the case.

Besides appeals of Vikas and Vishal,the court is also hearing a petition moved by their hired killer Sukhdev Pehalwan.

The police have also filed an appeal seeking enhancement of sentence of the convicts from life imprisonment to death penalty.

Vikas and Vishal had killed Nitish Katara on the night of February 17,2002 after abducting him from a marriage party in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district as they were against their sister Bharati Yadav’s affair with the victim.

The trial court sentenced Vikas and Vishal to life imprisonment in May 2008 and similarly in 2011 Pehlwan was also sentenced to life term by the court as he was absconding soon after the incident.