Bharti Yadav, key witness in the Nitish Katara murder case, has been issued travel documents by the government to enable her to come to India from Britain for giving evidence in the case on November 29.
A bench comprising Chief Justices K G Balakrishnan and justices R V Raveendran and L S Panta, however, sought replies from the Delhi and UP police on the plea of the accused.
Bharti, sister of Vishal Yadav and Vikas Yadav, both accused in the Nitish Katara murder case, in her petition contended that she could not come to India at least for six months
Additional Sessions Judge S L Bhayana acquitted Siddarth Vashist alias Manu Sharma of charges of murder and Vikas Yadav, Tony Gill, Alok Khanna of charges of destruction of evidence.
Bharti Yadav has not appeared before the court despite warrants against her.
Gill's plea for bail is likely to be heard on Wednesday by the Division Bench of Justice R S Sodhi and Justice P K Bhasin.
Bharti Yadav, a key witness, will depose on November 29.
"There is no evidence to establish that the car was used by the accused in the crime," the lawyer argued.
cution' of the Brahmins in the regime of Adityanath, a Rajput, accused of pandering to his caste's interests. Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
Bharti's passport was revoked on the ground that non-bailable warrants were pending against her.
Neelam Katara is the mother of Nitish Katara who was allegedly killed by Vikas Yadav, son of controversial Rajya Sabha member D P Yadav.
'I was determined to return with a medal from the World Championships.'
Flight Lieutenant Srikant Sharma said that getting into the armed forces was a dream come true and this opportunity is an "icing on the cake".
The HC enhanced the life term of three convicts -- Vikas and Vishal Yadav to 30 years imprisonment and 25 years incarceration to Sukhdev Yadav alias Pehalwan.
The SC also sentenced Sukhdev Pehalwan to 20 years.
The apex court bench, comprising Justices J S Khehar and Adarsh Kumar Goel, heard senior lawyers including U R Lalit for almost two hours before saying that the high court order "does not call for" any intervention.
Rejecting a plea for death penalty, Delhi High Court on Friday enhanced the sentence for Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal from life imprisonment to 25 years without remission for the murder of Nitish Katara and 5 more years for destruction of evidence in the case.
Rejecting the plea for death penalty, the apex court in its order said, 'It's just a murder; that's it.'
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played across India on Sunday
Cheteshwar Pujara missed out on a second successive double hundred but his 182 went a long way in Saurashtra piling up a mammoth 570 in their first innings against Gujarat on the second day of the Ranji Trophy.
Ishank Jaggi scored an unbeaten century while Ishan Kishan made 83 to hand Jharkhand the crucial first innings lead over Haryana in a Ranji Trophy match.
Young opener Prithvi Shaw underlined his class with a century against a quality Tamil Nadu attack to lead Mumbai to 314 for seven on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Group C match in Mumbai.
Riding on Tushar Deshpande's five-wicket haul, defending champions Mumbai registered a comfortable 10-wicket win over Railways and grabbed six points in their Ranji Trophy Group A match in Mysore on Tuesday. On the fourth day, Deshpande snapped three wickets -- Faiz Ahmed (28), Ashish Yadav (26) and DN Bansal (3) -- to go with the two wickets he had taken yesterday, while Shardul Thakur, Vijay Gohil and Balwinder Sandhu picked up one wicket each to dismiss Railways for 208 after they resumed their second innings at an overnight total of 135-4 on Tuesday.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday
A round-up of Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy group matches played on Thursday.
A round-up of Ranji matches played across India on Saturday
A round-up of the Ranji matches played on Friday
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played across India on Wednesday
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played across India on Tuesday
Captain Yuvraj Singh fell cheaply in his Ranji Trophy season opener before Uday Kaul and Gurkeerat Singh led Punjab's recovery against Railways on day two of the Group A match, in New Delhi, on Friday.
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