Vikas Yadav moves high court for bail to attend brother's marriage

Vikas Yadav, undergoing life imprisonment along with cousin Vishal for killing MBA graduate Nitish Katara in February, 2002, today moved the Delhi high court seeking interim bail to attend his brother's marriage.

Seeking interim bail for three months, Vikas said in the application that his younger brother Kunal's marriage is fixed for April 29 and the rituals would start from April 14, the date fixed for engagement ceremony.

He also said in the bail plea, which is likely to be heard tomorrow by the division bench headed by Justice BD Ahmed, that he would like to meet his grand father who would perform the marriage ceremony being the seniormost member of the family.

In August 2009, the bench, which has been hearing the appeal filed Vikas and Vishal Yadav challenging the trial court's conviction order, had rejected their bail plea and said, "Although both the accused persons were in custody for past several years, their incarceration cannot be a ground by itself for grant of bail".

In May 2008, a city court had sentenced Vikas, 37, son of controversial UP politician DP Yadav, and his cousin Vishal, 36, for killing Nitish Katara, son of an IAS officer.

According to the prosecution, Vikas and Vishal had kidnapped Katara from a marriage party in Ghaziabad on the night of February 16, 2002, and killed him as they were against Katara's intimacy with their sister Bharati Yadav.