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The Yadavs were convicted for the 2002 killing of 25-year-old business executive Nitish Katara. Vikas, the son of criminal politician D P Yadav, and cousin Vishal Yadav killed Katara on the night of February 17, 2002, after abducting him from a marriage party in Ghaziabad. They were opposed to Katara’s friendship with Vikas’ sister Bharti.
A trial court convicted them of the murder in 2008, and the conviction was upheld by the Delhi high Court in April 2014.
The Delhi high court then held that the murder of Katara, who was in love with Vikas’s sister Bharati, was an “honour killing”, which was done in a very “carefully planned and premeditated” manner with “extreme vengeance”.
Although the Delhi high court didn’t give them the death penalty — despite holding the murder to be a “rarest of rare” crime — it enhanced the life sentence handed to them by the trial court.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
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