SC Extends Interim Bail to Katara Murder Convict

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the interim bail granted to Vikas Yadav by four weeks, to attend to his ailing mother.

- Suchitra Kalyan Mohanty @ New Delhi

He was undergoing a 25-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case.

A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh asked Yadav to approach the Delhi High Court for seeking remission in the case. The top court has been extending interim bail to Yadav on medical grounds.

"Though arguments have been made by both the sides with respect to the petitioner's mother, we are inclined to extend the period of interim bail by four more weeks," the bench of the top court said in the order.