When the matter came up before Justice Mukta Gupta, she said the case be listed before another bench on December 15. The judge did not give any reason for her recusal.
The matter was listed before this bench after the transfer of the previous judge who had asked the Delhi Police to file a status report after full verification of the facts.
Yadav, in his plea, has said he was in custody and could not challenge the December 2014 order of the high court by which his appeal was dismissed in the murder case and sought a three-month parole to engage a lawyer and make other arrangements to exercise his legal and constitutional rights.
He has claimed there was no one else to look after his daughter, studying in class 10, for her education and that he has to dispose of his property in Ghaziabad's Vaishali to arrange for funds for her studies and his litigation.
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On August 29, the Supreme Court had dismissed his plea seeking review of its verdict sending him to prison for 25 years.
Besides Vishal Yadav, the apex court had awarded a 25- year jail term to his cousin Vikas Yadav and 20 years in prison for third convict Sukhdev Pehalwan in the case.
The top court had earlier dismissed the appeals against their conviction in the case for kidnapping of Katara from a marriage party on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002 before killing him for his alleged affair with Bharti Yadav, the sister of Vikas Yadav.
Katara was murdered as Vishal and Vikas Yadav did not approve of the victim's affair with Bharti because they belonged to different castes, the lower court had said.
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