Nitish Katara murder case: SC dismisses Vikas Yadav's plea for parole

Supreme Court on Monday dismissed parole plea of Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term for killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said convict was awarded 25 years of jail term and it has to be served without any grant of remission.

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'Complete your jail term'

"You have been sentenced for 25 years of imprisonment, complete it," bench said while dismissing plea of Yadav for grant of four-week parole.

bench, meanwhile, also dismissed ar plea of Yadav in which he had challenged constitutional validity of Delhi High court order awarding him 25 years of jail term without any remission.

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Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav were sentenced for kidnapping and killing Katara on intervening night of February 16 and 17, 2002 for his alleged affair with Bharti Yadav, sister of Vikas, as y belonged to different castes.

third convict Sukhdev Pehalwan was granted 20 years of jail term in case.

Yadav had sought a grant of parole on grounds including that he has already served over 17 years of jail term in Katara murder case.

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