In Nitish Katara Case, Death Sentence Rejected for Yadav Brothers

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Feb 06, 2015:  The cousins found guilty of murdering Nitish Katara, a young executive in Delhi, will not hang, the Delhi High Court said; it sentenced Vishal and Vikas Yadav to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment.

Mr Katara was 25  when he was burnt to death in Ghaziabad near Delhi  as punishment for dating Bharti Yadav, whose father is politician DP Yadav.  In 2002, he was attending a friend’s wedding with Ms Yadav when he was abducted by her brother, Vikas and cousin, Vishal.

His corpse, charred so badly that it could not be identified at first, was found a few days late near a highway.  The police used DNA samples to confirm the body was his.

 

Courtesy: NDTV