Murder of Nitish Katara

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Nitish Katara was a 23-year-old Indian business executive in Delhi who was murdered in the early hours of 17 February 2002 by Vikas Yadav. Yadav was the son of an influential politician D. P. Yadav. Katara had recently graduated from the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad, where he had fallen in love with his classmate Bharti Yadav, sister of Vikas Yadav. The trial court held that Katara's murder was an honour killing because the family did not approve of their relationship. Vikas and Vishal Yadav were later found guilty by the trial Court and both were given life sentences on 30 May 2008. On 2 April 2014, the Delhi High Court upheld the trial court's verdict of life imprisonment for the accused. On 6 February 2015, Delhi High Court on re-appeal on death sentence, extended the convicts' sentence to 25 years' rigorous life imprisonment without remission. On 9 September 2015, the Supreme Court of India rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death...

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