KATARA CASE: HC NOTICE ON YADAV PAROLE PLEA

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday sought the response of the Delhi police on a plea by Vishal Yadav, serving life term in the Nitish Katara murder case, seeking a three-month parole to sell his property for arranging funds for his daughter’s education. Justice Ashutosh Kumar also sought the response of Neelam Katara, mother of Nitish, on the plea. The court asked additional standing counsel Rajesh Mahajan, appearing for the Delhi police, to file a status report after full verification of the facts and listed the matter for December 13. It said that the notice be also served to witness Ajay Katara to present his case. Yadav, through senior advocate Puneet Mittal, said he was in custody and could not challenge the December 2014 order of the high court by which his appeal was dismissed in the murder case and sought a three-month parole to engage a lawyer and make other arrangements to exercise his legal and constitutional rights. He submitted there was no one else to look after his daughter, studying in Class 10 , for the purpose of education and that he has to dispose of his property in Ghaziabad’s Vaishali to arrange for funds for studies and for his litigation. He also wished to meet his grandmother who was in her advanced stage of life, the plea said. On August 29, the Supreme Court had dismissed his plea seeking review of its verdict sending him to prison for 25 years. —