New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued a
notice to the prosecution on a bail plea by Sukhdev Pehalwan,
one of the accused in Nitish Katara murder case, who said he
wants to take part in the wedding of his nephew.
Additional Sessions Judge J R Aryan has issued the
notice to public prosecutor B S Joon for November six.
Pehalwan, whose trial was separated from that of Vikas
Yadav and Vishal Yadav in the case as he had absconded, had
filed the bail application on October 29.
"My nephew is getting married on November 19 and the
family is in dire need of a responsible person to overlook and
supervise all arrangements ... my elder brother, whose son is
getting married, is not keeping well," the application said.
It also said Pehlawan cannot influence the trial and
the examination of prosecution witnesses in the case was over.
The court, after taking the application into records,
fixed the matter for hearing on November six.
The Delhi High Court had recently granted conditional
bail to convict Vikas, son of controversial Uttar Pradesh
politician D P Yadav, to attend the marriage of his sister
Bharati who allegedly had an intimate relation with victim
Nitish Katara.
Earlier, the accused, recording his statement in
response to evidence collected against him, had questioned the
reliability of witness Ajay Katara.
Pehalwan, along with Vikas and Vishal, allegedly
killed Nitish on the intervening night of February 16/17,
2002.
Recording a statement under Section 313 (response of
an accused on evidence collected against him) of the CrPC,
Pehalwan had said Ajay Katara came as a witness at a very late
stage and hailed from the same village as the victim.
Ajay had testified that he had last seen Nitish alive
in the company of accused Vikas Yadav, Vishal and Sukhdev on
the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002.
Bureau Report