New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by Vikas Yadav, son of controversial Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav, seeking a stay on his conviction and sentence in the Jessica Lall murder case, to contest the Assembly elections.
The Delhi High Court had on December 20 sentenced Vikas Yadav and Amardeep Singh Gill – the two co-accused of Manu Sharma in the Jessica Lall murder case – to four years rigorous imprisonment for aiding and abetment of crime.
The court had also slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 each on the duo.
Vikas had filed the plea in the Supreme Court for the suspension of the sentence to contest the UP Assembly elections after the apex court had granted a similar relief to Navjot Singh Sidhu that enabled him to contest Amritsar Lok Sabha by-poll.
The court in April first week will hear the bail plea of Manu Sharma, who has challenged the Delhi High Court verdict convicting him in the case.
Manu claims that he did not get a fair trial in the high court because of the media pressure, adding that through malicious and vicious campaign the media had browbeaten the high court judges as well as his counsel preventing free and fair hearing.
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