Nitish Katara murder: Vikas Yadav found guilty

Nitish Katara murder: Vikas Yadav found guilty

Wed, May 28 11:12 AM

It's justice for Nitish Katara at last. The trial court hearing the six-year-old murder case held prime accused Vikas Yadav guilty. His cousin Vishal Yadav has also been found guilty in the case.

Neelam Katara, mother of Nitish has sat through 400 hearings for this day fighting not only against the system but amidst tough political pressures. Vikas Yadav is the son of Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav's and Vishal Yadav is his nephew. The two were accused of killing Nitish and then setting his body on fire.

"I found the body badly charred and the head had been struck with a hard object. There was a crack on the head and after that the body had been badly burnt. Everything was charred. God forbid that any parent ever has to see the child like that," Neelam Katara said as per news reports.

Past details:

Nitish was at a wedding along with Bharti Yadav - daughter of Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav. Bharti's brother Vikas and her cousin Vishal were also at the wedding. They allegedly left the party with Nitish that night in their SUV and killed him because they didn't approve of his romance with their sister.

When Nitish was found dead the Yadav boys were already missing. Their father, then a Rajya Sabha Samajwadi Party MP, spoke in their defence.

However, a few days after Nitish's death, Vikas and Vishal Yadav were found and arrested in Madhya Pradesh. Vikas first confessed that he got into a fight with Nitish at the wedding.

But a week later, came his retraction, "I have never heard that name. I have never seen him in my life, I just went to the wedding and came back."

Bharti was oscillating between family pressure and the truth. She told the press that despite all the Valentine's Day cards, she had never dated Nitish.

Bharti was then sent to London to study. In the next four years, one witness after another turned hostile. But Neelam Katara's was successful in having the case transferred out of Ghaziabad on the grounds that D P Yadav was influencing proceedings.

The last six years have seen Neelam quitting her job, she has lost her husband but her mission was this case.