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Katara abduction case: Arrest warrants against Vikas, Vishal

Police are on the look out for Vikas, son of Rajya Sabha member D P Yadav and a candidate in the UP assembly election, and Vishal in connection with the kidnapping of Nitish Katara who was last seen at a party in Ghaziabad on February 14.

Chief Judicial Magistrate R K Gupta issued the warrants and the two accused, charged with abduction of a Delhi-based IAS officer's son Nitish, as they failed to surrender in his court on Friday.

The court also posted to Monday an application by Vikas, also an accused in model Jessica Lal murder case and currently on bail, and Vishal for surrendering after their lawyers pleaded that they were not well and unable to surrender.

Expected to surrender on Friday, the accused moved an application before Chief Judicial Magistrate R K Gupta through their counsel Yashwant Singh claiming to be ill and sought three more days to surrender.

Conceding the request, the court fixed the next hearing on February 25.

The counsel for the accused refused to disclose the whereabouts of the two.

In the wake of police recovering a charred body in Bulandshahr district on Thursday, Neelam Katara, mother of the kidnapped youth, expressed apprehension of it being that of Nitish and sought a DNA test to determine the identity of the body.

The body has been sent to Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences and samples have been sent to Hyderabad for a DNA test, the result of which was expected in a week's time.

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