The AAP government in Delhi, on Friday, appointed senior lawyers Gopal Subramanium and Dayan Krishnan to contest the appeal of Nitish Katara murder case convicts Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal in the Supreme Court.
The move by the Arvind Kejriwal government comes after Neelam Katara, who is the mother of Nitish Katara, requested the Delhi government to appoint these two senior lawyers.
She had asked for them to contest the appeal of the convicts who have been sentenced to 25 years in jail without any remission by the Delhi High Court.
“On the request of Neelam Katara, the Home Department has appointed senior lawyers Gopal Subramanium and Dayan Krishnan to contest the appeal of Vikas Yadav and Vishal against their imprisonment in the Supreme Court,” said a senior Delhi government official.
The official said that both the lawyers will argue in the apex court against the appeal of Vikas and Vishal.
On February 6 this year, the Delhi High Court had enhanced the life imprisonment of Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal to 25 years in jail, without any remission, and an additional five years for destruction of evidence in the case of honour killing of Nitish Katara in 2002.
The court had held that the murder of Katara, who was in love with Vikas’s sister, was an “honour killing” which was done in a very “carefully planned and premeditated” manner with “extreme vengeance”.
Vikas and Vishal have now moved to the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s verdict. — PTI
The move by the Arvind Kejriwal government comes after Neelam Katara, the mother of Nitish Katara, requested the Delhi government to appoint the two senior lawyers to contest the appeal
of the convicts
