SC Orders Launch Of Sukhdev Pehalwan In 2002 Nitish Katara Homicide Case
The Supreme Courtroom has ordered the discharge of Sukhdev Yadav alias ‘Pehalwan’, convicted within the 2002 Nitish Katara homicide case.
The Supreme Courtroom ordered the discharge of the convict, stating that he had accomplished his 20-year jail time period. It clarified that in instances like Pehalwan’s, the place a life sentence is for a set length, the prisoner have to be freed as soon as the sentence is served. The Supreme Courtroom additionally directed that prisoners who’ve accomplished their fixed-term sentence ought to be launched instantly.
Three Months’ Furlough To Pehalwan
This comes after the Supreme Courtroom in June granted three months’ furlough to Sukhdev Yadav alias ‘Pehalwan’, within the 2002 Nitish Katara homicide case.
A Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Okay Vinod Chandran ordered that Sukhdev Yadav ‘Pehalwan’, who’s serving a 20-year jail time period within the sensational case, be produced earlier than the trial court docket involved, which can set situations for furlough.
The security and safety of sufferer Neelam Katara, the mom of the deceased Nitish Katara, can even be considered, added the Justice Bhuyan-led Bench.
Within the sensational case, ‘Pehalwan’ was handed a 20-year jail time period with out consideration of remission and a advantageous of Rs 10,000.
SC Contempt Discover To Delhi Govt Principal Secretary
In March this yr, the Supreme Courtroom issued a contempt discover to the Principal Secretary (Residence) of the Delhi authorities within the matter and sought a proof as to why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to him below the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
Nitish Katara Homicide Case
Former cupboard minister DP Yadav’s son Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav, together with others, have been discovered responsible and handed a 25-year jail time period with out the potential for remission for abducting Nitish Katara from a marriage in February 2002 and killing him over his alleged relationship with Vikas’s sister, Bharti Yadav.
In keeping with the trial court docket, Katara was murdered as a result of Vishal and Vikas disapproved of his relationship with Bharti, as they got here from completely different castes
