New Delhi: Bharti Yadav, a key prosecution witness in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, met her lawyer here on Monday two days ahead of her crucial and long-delayed deposition in the court. Amid speculation about her whereabouts, she met lawyer S C Bhuttan and is understood to have discussed details of the case in which her brother Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal Yadav are the main accused.
Bharti, daughter of UP politician D P Yadav, had arrived in India on November 23 from London, sources said.
Her arrival preceded a protracted legal wrangle. However, she has not appeared in public so far, keeping the media guessing about her whereabouts. She had arrived in Mumbai on a Jet Airways flight and was handed over to the immigration authorities, who completed the necessary formalities, as she was travelling on an emergency landing certificate, the sources said.
Bhuttan, however, refused to divulge what transpired between the two. "It's between a client and a lawyer. I cannot say anything on that," he said.
Meanwhile, Nitish Katara's brother Nitin Katara testified in the Patiala House Courts in connection with the murder case.
The defence counsel pointed out that Nitin had told the police nothing about Bharti Yadav-Nitish Katara relationship or her apprehension that her brothers were involved in the Nitish Katara missing case. They suggest Nitin Katara is now talking to strengthen the prosecution's case, the defence said.
Now, Bharti's testimony in the case is crucial as she had in her statement to police earlier stated that she saw Vishal and Vikas with Nitish before his disappearance. He was later found murdered. She is set to depose in a court on Wednesday. According to prosecution, Nitish was killed allegedly by Vikas and Vishal, who were said to have been against her intimacy with him, on February 17, 2002.
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