New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday issued non-bailable warrant against Bharti Yadav, sister of Vikas Yadav, the main accused in the Nitish Katara murder case.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur issued the warrant against Bharti to be executed on or before March 27 as she has failed to appear as a prosecution witness in the case.
Earlier on March 4, the court had asked Uttar Pradesh police to produce Nitish Katara murder case accused Sukhdev before it on March seven.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur also fixed the same date for arguments regarding the summoning of Bharati Yadav as a witness in the case.
Accused Sukhdev, presently lodged in Ghaziabad jail after his arrest about six months ago, is the third accused in the sensational murder case, besides Vikas Yadav, and his cousin Vishal, both of whom were present in court on Tuesday.
Charges are yet to be framed against Sukhdev, while Vikas and Vishal are accused of murder, abduction in order to murder and causing disappearance of evidence.
Vishal Yadav, nephew of former Rajya Sabha MP and Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, was granted bail by the Delhi High Court on October six last year, 43 months after his arrest in February 2002.
D P Yadav's son, Vikas, also an accused in the case, is currently in jail. He was one of the nine persons acquitted by a trial court on February 21 in the Jessica Lal murder case.
Katara, a business executive, was allegedly kidnapped and murdered on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002 from Ghaziabad where he had gone to attend a marriage.
The case was transferred to Delhi on a direction of the Supreme Court as the victim's mother had expressed apprehension that she would not get a fair trial in the Ghaziabad court.
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