New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court has allowed Vikas Yadav, who is serving life imprisonment along with cousin Vishal for the murder of Nitish Katara, to attend his sister's wedding.
Vikas Yadav has been granted custodial parole for 12 hours to attend the wedding of his sister Bharati Yadav on November 1. Policemen will accompany him.
The court refused to grant him interim bail.
A bench comprising Justices Anil Kumar and Vipin Sanghi allowed Vikas, son of controversial Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, to participate in his sister's wedding ceremony on November 1 from 5 pm till his sister leave for her husband's house next morning.
The court directed the police officers to accompany him in plain clothes during the function.
Vikas had sought three months interim bail to attend the function and perform the rituals as the bride's elder brother during the ceremony.
Both Vikas and Vishal were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on May 28 last year for killing Nitish Katara in 2002, as they opposed Katara's intimacy with Bharti.
Their appeal against the trial court verdict is pending before the high court.
Nitish, an MBA, was the son of an IAS officer.
According to the prosecution, Vikas, 36, son of controversial Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal, 35, had kidnapped Katara on the night of February 16, 2002, from a marriage party in Ghaziabad and killed him as they were against their sister's affair with Katara and their plan for marriage.