The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Vikas Yadav’s plea to reconsider his 25-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, in which he was convicted for murder and abduction. The apex court was hearing a review petition filed by the convict requesting the bench to reconsider his jail term under murder charge.
The court had reduced the punishment awarded to murder convicts Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav from life term to a 25-year jail term. The court also sentenced another accused Sukhdev to a 20-year jail term in the same case.
In 2015, the apex court upheld the decision of conviction passed by a lower court, observing that ‘only criminals are crying for justice in this country’. The three accused had been sentenced to a life-term by a lower court in 2008 for abducting and murdering Nitish Katara, the son of a railway officer, in February 2002, as they opposed his relationship with Bharti, Vikas’ sister.
(With inputs from ANI.)
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