New Delhi, Aug 29: A Madhya Pradesh police official, who had arrested Vikas and Vishal Yadav, accused in the Nitish Katara murder case, today contradicted in a Delhi court UP police claim that they had not interrogated the brothers on February 23, 2002 when they were arrested from Gwalior and produced before a local court. "Uttar Pradesh police met me in the evening at my police station (Dabra) around 5 or 6 pm (on February 23, 2002). The accused persons were taken to a room and there they were interrogated by the u p police for 4-5 hours," Inspector Ashok Bidhuria, who nabbed the duo from near Dabra railway station in Gwalior, told additional sessions judge S N Dhingra.

However, Bidhuria said that he had not made any entries of UP police's arrival in the general diary maintained at the police station.
The officer denied suggestions by prosecution counsel S K Saxena that he had stagemanaged the arrest at the convenience of the accused.

Bidhuria said on that day he was waiting outside the Dabra railway station when some passengers came out. Two of them, when asked, disclosed their names as Raj Kumar and Susheel, he said.

However, when he searched them, the duo tried to slip away. But they were quickly apprehended, Bidhoria said, adding they then revealed their identity as Vikas and Vishal Yadav.

Bureau Report