{"id":18780,"date":"2012-03-29T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T05:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=18780"},"modified":"2012-03-29T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T05:35:57","slug":"katara-murder-two-cops-guarding-vikas-yadav-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/katara-murder-two-cops-guarding-vikas-yadav-suspended","title":{"rendered":"Katara murder: Two cops guarding Vikas Yadav suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/katara-murder-two-cops-guarding-vikas-yadav-suspended\/mn\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18781\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18781\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/katara-murder-two-cops-guarding-vikas-yadav-suspended\/mn\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/mn.jpg?fit=221%2C228&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"221,228\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/mn.jpg?fit=145%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/mn.jpg?fit=221%2C228&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18781\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mn.jpg?resize=221%2C228&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/mn.jpg?w=221&amp;ssl=1 221w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/mn.jpg?resize=145%2C150&amp;ssl=1 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>The government Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that two security personnel were suspended and an inquiry initiated against them for allegedly allowing Nitish Katara murder convict Vikas Yadav leave his hospital room on the Diwali night last year.<\/p>\n<p>Placing the medical records of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) before the court, advocate of victim&#8217;s mother Neelam Katara alleged that Vikas was not in his hospital room on Diwali night (Oct 26, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vikas left the hospital at 8.30 p.m. and came back the next morning but the sister who was on duty was not informed either by the patient or the policemen who were with him,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The government informed the division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice V.K. 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