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Plea being heard because prime accused deserves a chance to be heard: court His petition, seeking re-examination of Ajay, was earlier dismissed by trial court NEW DELHI: Pronouncement of the much awaited verdict in the Nitish Katara murder case, which was fixed for Wednesday by the trial court here on Tuesday, has become uncertain with the Delhi High Court agreeing to hear the plea of prime accused Vikas Yadav to restrain the trial court from pronouncing the judgment. Approaching the Bench of Justice Manmohan Sarin and Justice Manmohan, counsel for Vikas told the court on Tuesday that it would cause prejudice to his client if he was not heard in the light of the sting operation in which key prosecution witness Ajay Katara allegedly admitted to having lied in court to favour the prosecution and also helped it plant evidence. However, Nitish’s mother Neelam Katara told the court that the accused only wanted to drag the matter. While listing the matter for Wednesday, the High Court made it clear that the plea was not being heard on merits but because the prime accused deserved a chance to be heard. Earlier in the day, dismissing Vikas’ petition seeking Ajay’s re-examination in the wake of the sting operation, Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur said that with the key witness accepting it on affidavit that it was his voice and face in the sting operation, which was carried out by a local daily, the petition was not required at such an advanced stage of trial. The court had already reserved the verdict in the case and the sting operation was carried out after it had set a date for fixing the day on which the verdict was to be pronounced. Within hours of the trial court dismissing the petition, Vikas moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to restrain the trial court from pronouncing the verdict. During the trial, Ajay had told the court that he had seen Nitish along with the accused in their Tata Safari vehicle on the fateful night of February 16-17, 2002, at a check-point on Delhi-Hapur Road. According to the prosecution, Vikas and his cousin, co-accused Vishal Yadav, along with the other accused had kidnapped Nitish, son of an IAS officer, from outside a marriage venue in Ghaziabad and then killed him. The prosecution had said that Nitish was bludgeoned to death with a hammer and his partly burnt body was recovered off the highway at Khurja in Uttar Pradesh a couple of days later. According to the prosecution, the prime accused got rid of Nitish Katara as he was opposed to the victim’s proximity to his sister, both of whom studied in the same management institute at Ghaziabad.
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