Nitish Katara case: Bharti turning hostile didn’t save accused
3 April 2014 5:33 AM IST
Bharti Yadav’s bid to save her brothers from conviction by turning hostile proved futile as the Delhi High Court refused to differ with the findings of the trial court, which discarded her testimony that she was not in love with the victim.
She herself was also the victim of ‘honour killing’ like her lover, noted the High Court and said her testimony five years after the crime in the trial court was ‘under pressure’.
A bench of justices Gita Mittal and JR Midha concurred with the findings of trial court that Bharti was in a close relationship with the victim which was supported by the call details of her mobile phone on the day of incident.
‘The evidence of the cell phone records in the instant case therefore cannot be doubted,’ the bench said referring to the call details gathered from Bharti’s mobile phone on the intervening night of 16 and 17 February, 2002, the day Nitish went missing.
She herself was also the victim of ‘honour killing’ like her lover, noted the High Court and said her testimony five years after the crime in the trial court was ‘under pressure’.
A bench of justices Gita Mittal and JR Midha concurred with the findings of trial court that Bharti was in a close relationship with the victim which was supported by the call details of her mobile phone on the day of incident.
‘The evidence of the cell phone records in the instant case therefore cannot be doubted,’ the bench said referring to the call details gathered from Bharti’s mobile phone on the intervening night of 16 and 17 February, 2002, the day Nitish went missing.
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