Nitish Katara case: Convict Vikas Yadav’s furlough request rejected, jail admin cites ‘unsatisfactory’ conduct

Vikas, the lad of Uttar Pradesh person D P Yadav, was awarded a 25-year jailhouse word by the Supreme Court successful 2016 on with 2 others for their relation successful the sensational kidnapping and sidesplitting of Katara.

A furlough is fixed successful cases of semipermanent imprisonment. The play of furlough granted to a captive is treated arsenic remission of his sentence. Furlough is seen arsenic a substance of close for a prisoner, to beryllium granted periodically irrespective of immoderate reason, and simply to alteration the captive to clasp household and societal ties and to antagonistic the sick effects of prolonged clip spent successful prison.

The bid issued connected October 23 by the DS-Legal, PHQ, Delhi Prisons, said, “Convict Vikas Yadav, lad of D P Yadav, is undergoing beingness condemnation successful lawsuit FIR nary 192/2022 (actual imprisonment of 25 years without information of remission). His behaviour has been recovered to beryllium unsatisfactory arsenic helium was punished connected May 28, 2012, July 10, 2013, October 10, 2017 for usurpation of situation rules.”

The bid was besides sent to the jailhouse superintendent of Central Jail No 3 successful Tihar wherever Vikas is presently lodged.

The bid further states, “Vikas has been sentenced to acquisition beingness imprisonment, which shall beryllium 25 years of existent imprisonment, without information of remission by the Hon’ble Delhi High Court successful Crl entreaty and this bid of Delhi High Court was besides confirmed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court. As the convict has not earned immoderate remission including yearly bully behaviour study (AGCR), which is simply a prerequisite condition, helium cannot beryllium fixed immoderate furlough arsenic per rule-1223.”

According to the order, Rule 1223 of Delhi Prison Rules-2018 states that a convict indispensable fulfil 2 criteria: the captive should not beryllium a habitual offender and person bully behaviour successful prison, and should person earned rewards successful the past 3 AGCR and proceed to support bully conduct. “…Therefore, his furlough is rejected. The convict whitethorn beryllium informed nether due acknowledgement,” it states.

On October 3, 2016, the Supreme Court had awarded a 25-year jailhouse word without immoderate payment of remission to Vikas and his relative Vishal for their relation successful Katara’s killing. Another co-convict Sukhdev Pehalwan was besides handed down a 20-year jailhouse word successful the case. Prior to this, the Delhi High Court, portion upholding the beingness imprisonment awarded to Vikas and Vishal by the proceedings court, had specified a 30-year sentence, without immoderate remission, to some of them. It had awarded a 25-year jailhouse word to Pehalwan.

All 3 were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping Katara from a matrimony enactment connected the intervening nighttime of February 16-17, 2002 and past sidesplitting him for his alleged matter with Vikas’s sister Bharti. Katara was murdered arsenic Vishal and Vikas did not o.k. of his matter with Bharti due to the fact that they belonged to antithetic castes, the little tribunal had said successful its verdict.