The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of Vikas Yadav seeking hearing of his appeal by any high court other than that of Delhi. Vikas, sentenced to life imprisonment in Nitish Katara murder case, is the son of UP politician D P Yadav.

A bench comprising of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice HS Bedi rejected his plea mentioning that it did not carry any merit.

Vikas Yadav along with his cousin Vishal were awarded life term sentence by a sessions court in New Delhi on May 30. They were accused of killing Nitish Katara near Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh in 2002.

But the victims mother Nilam Katara then went to the apex court for transferring the hearing of case from Ghaziabad to any other court in New Delhi. The Apex Court of India on August 23, 2002 transferred the trial from the Ghaziabad Sessions Court to the Sessions Court in Delhi.

After his sentencing, Vikas Yadav had filed a plea in the Allahabad High Court challenging the order of session's court. But the court refused to hear it. Rather the court advised Vikash that the right forum to challenge it is Delhi High Court.