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Supreme Court Grants Fourth Interim Bail Extension to Vikas Yadav

He must surrender at the end of the four-week period with no option for further medical-based bail.

Vikas Yadav is serving life term for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in February 2002. (HT Archive)

Overview

  • A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and K. Vinod Chandran approved his fourth four-week interim bail extension to support his mother’s post-operative care.
  • The court ordered him to surrender after this term and ruled out any further extensions based on his mother’s health.
  • He must furnish a ₹1 lakh bond with a local surety, report daily at 11 a.m. to Ghaziabad police and refrain from contacting any prosecution witnesses.
  • His home confinement restriction was relaxed to allow accompanying his mother to Yashoda Hospital following her spinal surgery and neurological complications.
  • Yadav is serving a 25-year sentence upheld in 2016 for the 2002 caste-driven abduction and murder of Nitish Katara, with remission eligibility set after his full term.