{"id":34533,"date":"2014-08-02T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34533"},"modified":"2014-08-02T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:07:23","slug":"katara-case-convicts-deserve-death-cops-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/katara-case-convicts-deserve-death-cops-hc","title":{"rendered":"Katara case convicts deserve death: Cops to HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/nitish-katara-murder-vishal-to-pay-rs-16-lakh-for-security\/nitish-katara-murder\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18135\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18135\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/nitish-katara-murder-vishal-to-pay-rs-16-lakh-for-security\/nitish-katara-murder\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Nitish-Katara-murder.jpg?fit=273%2C184&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"273,184\" 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=\"Nitish Katara murder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Nitish-Katara-murder.jpg?fit=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Nitish-Katara-murder.jpg?fit=273%2C184&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Nitish-Katara-murder.jpg?resize=273%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nitish Katara murder\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Nitish-Katara-murder.jpg?w=273&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Nitish-Katara-murder.jpg?resize=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a>Delhi Police today told the Delhi High Court that Vikas Yadav and two others, convicted for killing Nitish Katara, deserve death sentence as the offence was \u201cpre-meditated\u201d and committed in a \u201ccold blooded\u201d manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accused persons (Vikas, Vishal and Sukhdev Pehalwan), in furtherence of their common intention, murdered the victim Nitish Katara in a cold-blooded, planned and pre-meditated manner, without any provocation,\u201d the counsel for Delhi Police told a bench of justices Gita Mittal and J R Midha.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Police and Nitish\u2019s mother Neelam Katara are seeking capital punishment or an enhanced life sentence for Vikas, Vishal Yadav and Sukhdev Pehalwan.<\/p>\n<p>The police said \u201cthe brutality of the crime not only lay in the manner of its execution but also in its conception\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThe burning of the body after killing the deceased and leaving it without any clothes demonstrated a depraved state of mind and lack of remorse as the accused displayed no respect for the human body,\u201d the counsel argued.<\/p>\n<p>It further said that the nature of injuries inflicted on the body proves one blow was sufficient to cause death.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the victim\u2019s mother, who had concluded her arguments, had demanded death for the three terming their offence to be of the rarest of rare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trial court as well as this court have already held that this is a case of honour killing. I want to add one thing that the honour killing falls under the rarest of rare category of cases warranting imposition of death penalty,\u201d the counsel for Neelam Katara had told the bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the accused were earlier involved in criminal cases which shows their propensity towards crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSukhdev was an absconder for over three and half years, so there is no chance of his reformation and rehabilitation,\u201d the Delhi Police counsel also said.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments will continue on August 8.<\/p>\n<p>Vikas, Vishal and Sukhdev Pehalwan are serving life term for abducting and killing Nitish Katara, a business executive and son of an IAS officer, on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002. They did not approve of the victim\u2019s affair with Bharti, daughter of D P Yadav.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court had on April 2 upheld the verdict of the lower court in the case by describing the offence as \u201chonour killing\u201d stemming from a \u201cdeeply-entrenched belief\u201d in caste system.<\/p>\n<p>Nitish Katara was abducted and killed by Vikas, his cousin Vishal and Pehalwan as they did not approve of the victim\u2019s affair with Bharti because they belong to different castes, the court had said.<\/p>\n<p>The high court had dismissed the appeals of the convicts and kept pending two separate pleas of the state and Neelam Katara seeking death penalty for them.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Police today told the Delhi High Court that Vikas Yadav and two others, convicted for killing Nitish Katara, deserve death sentence as the offence was \u201cpre-meditated\u201d and committed in a \u201ccold blooded\u201d manner. \u201cThe accused persons (Vikas, Vishal and Sukhdev Pehalwan), in furtherence of their common intention, murdered the victim Nitish Katara in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,381,3294,27567,22463,47765,47774,47775,23371,2737],"class_list":["post-34533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-delhi-police","tag-justice-gita-mittal","tag-justice-j-r-midha","tag-katara-case","tag-news","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news","tag-vikas-yadav"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Katara case convicts deserve death: Cops to HC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Katara case convicts deserve death: Cops to HC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/katara-case-convicts-deserve-death-cops-hc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Katara case convicts deserve death: Cops to HC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Katara case convicts deserve death: Cops to HC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/katara-case-convicts-deserve-death-cops-hc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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