The Delhi High Court has refused
to award the capital punishment to the killers of Nitish Katara, a business
executive and son of a railway officer. However, the Court has enhanced the
punishment of all the three culprits Vikas Yadav, Vishal, and Sukhdev Pehelwan
from life imprisonment to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment.
Katara was just 25 years old when
he was burnt alive by the mentioned offenders in Ghaziabad near New Delhi for
dating Bharti Yadav, daughter of D P Yadav, a liquor mafia turned politician.
He was attending a wedding ceremony with Bharti when he was abducted by her
brother Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal.
Katara's seriously burnt body was
found a few days later. The body was burnt to such a degree that it could not
be identified initially; the police had to use the DNA sample to confirm the
dead body was Katara's.
During the trial Bharti refused
to have any romantic relations with Katara whom she met at a business school
and fell in love afterwards. Nitish Katara's mother Neelam fought a lengthy and
hard legal battle against a politically and economically strong opponent - DP Yadav, who left no stone unturned in
influencing the case.
In 2008, a Delhi court found them
guilty of murdering Nitish Katara and awarded life imprisonment. Neelam Katara
and Delhi Police took the case to the Delhi High Court and demanded that either they
should be sentenced to capital punishment or their sentence be made tougher.
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