<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday extended by four weeks the interim bail of convict Vikas Yadav, serving a 25-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to attend to his ailing mother.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan also directed him to file a document by May 27 to show his mother had undergone surgery.</p>.Supreme Court to hear plea of Ashoka University professor against his arrest over post on Operation Sindoor.<p>Imposing conditions, the top court on April 24 directed the convict to remain confined to his house in Ghaziabad and communicate with the case's witnesses, including Katara's mother Neelam Katara.</p>.<p>The apex court granted him the relief on a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of the like amount.</p>.<p>Vikas is the son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav. His cousin Vishal Yadav was also punished for the kidnapping and murder of business executive Katara.</p>.<p>The duo was against Katara's alleged affair with Bharti Yadav, Vikas' sister, for belonging to different castes.</p>.<p>Another co-convict Sukhdev Pehalwan was given a 20-year jail term without any remission benefit.</p>.<p>The Delhi High Court, while upholding the life imprisonment awarded to Vikas and Vishal Yadav by the trial court, had previously specified a 30-year sentence, without any remission, to both of them.</p>.<p>It awarded a 25-year jail term to Pehalwan.</p>.<p>The Delhi prisons administration last year rejected Yadav's remission request after his conduct was found to be unsatisfactory. </p>
<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday extended by four weeks the interim bail of convict Vikas Yadav, serving a 25-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to attend to his ailing mother.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan also directed him to file a document by May 27 to show his mother had undergone surgery.</p>.Supreme Court to hear plea of Ashoka University professor against his arrest over post on Operation Sindoor.<p>Imposing conditions, the top court on April 24 directed the convict to remain confined to his house in Ghaziabad and communicate with the case's witnesses, including Katara's mother Neelam Katara.</p>.<p>The apex court granted him the relief on a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of the like amount.</p>.<p>Vikas is the son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav. His cousin Vishal Yadav was also punished for the kidnapping and murder of business executive Katara.</p>.<p>The duo was against Katara's alleged affair with Bharti Yadav, Vikas' sister, for belonging to different castes.</p>.<p>Another co-convict Sukhdev Pehalwan was given a 20-year jail term without any remission benefit.</p>.<p>The Delhi High Court, while upholding the life imprisonment awarded to Vikas and Vishal Yadav by the trial court, had previously specified a 30-year sentence, without any remission, to both of them.</p>.<p>It awarded a 25-year jail term to Pehalwan.</p>.<p>The Delhi prisons administration last year rejected Yadav's remission request after his conduct was found to be unsatisfactory. </p>