Appearing for Vishal before the bench of justices Gita Mittal and J R Midha, senior advocate Ram Jethmalani sought the court to reject his testimony and said "He (Ajay Katara) should be tried for perjury as the story given by him before the trial court is wholly false."
Referring to the testimony of Ajay Katara, the star prosecution witness, Jethmalani sought the court to reject the last-seen theory that Katara had seen the victim (Nitish Katara) in the company of Vikas and Vishal on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002.
"The court should demolish his story because it does not speak truth. It creates serious doubts," Jethmalani argued questioning Katara's statement that he had seen the deceased sitting with Vishal in the car Vikas was driving before the murder.
The Yadavs were convicted in 2008 by the trial court for kidnapping and later murdering Nitish Katara, son of an IAS officer, as they were against his affair with their sister Bharati Yadav.
The duo killed Katara on the intervening night 16-17 February, 2002, after abducting him from a marriage party in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad. MORE