New Delhi: Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav - the accused in the Nitish Katara murder case - seem to have landed in a fresh legal trouble when the Supreme Court on Monday served a notice on the duo to explain why a legal notice was served to public prosecutor B S Joon seeking Rs 20 crore as compensation for defamation.
Vikas Yadav, son of a controversial politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal are the prime accused in the killing of Nitish Katara, who was allegedly kidnapped by them and done away with in February 2002, because they did not not like the intimate relations between his sister Bharti and the victim.
Vikas and Vishal have alleged that by revealing Bharti's whereabouts to the media and by suggesting that she was pressurised by the accused, the public prosecutor defamed both of them in statements made by him to the media on July 17.
BS Joon had received the legal notice on November 17.
Last week, the Supreme Court had refused to entertain the bail plea of Vikas Yadav. A bench comprising Justices K G Balakrishnan and D K Jain declined to accept the plea of Yadav that he was entitled to bail in view of his sister and the key witness Bharti's deposition before a trial judge.
With the Apex Court unrelenting on its stance, the counsel for the petitioner Rajnath Chopra withdrew the petition and agreed to move the High Court again on the matter. The court, accordingly, granted permission for Yadav to move a fresh bail application before the high court.
Bharti had on Thursday concluded her deposition in a local court with her lawyer claiming she has denied any love affair with the victim while the prosecution indicated she has turned hostile.
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