Delhi court docket grants exemption from private look to Vikash Yadav after he cites risk to life

Vikash Yadav was arrested by the Particular Cell of Delhi Police in December final yr following a criticism by a Delhi-based businessman, accusing him of extorting and kidnapping. File
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A Delhi court docket has granted exemption from private look to Vikash Yadav, accused of making an attempt to kill alleged Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun within the U.S., in a case of kidnapping and extortion lodged in opposition to him after he claimed risk to life.

Particular Choose Sumit Dass granted the exemption to Mr. Yadav for Saturday (November 16, 2024) on an software moved by his lawyer, claiming that his private particulars have been made public, placing his life in danger.

The decide directed him to seem earlier than the court docket on February 3, the following date of listening to.

He was arrested by the Particular Cell of Delhi Police in December final yr following a criticism by a Delhi-based businessman, accusing him of extorting and kidnapping. A cost sheet was filed in March and Mr. Yadav was granted bail in April.

‘Named by U.S.’

Mr. Yadav, stated to be a former RAW official, was named by the U.S. in reference to the failed assassination try on Pannun.

The appliance earlier than the court docket said that “false and frivolous allegations have been levelled in opposition to the applicant (Yadav) and the particulars of the applicant comparable to his residence, his background alongside along with his pictures have been printed all around the world, exposing the applicant to severe risk to his life from nefarious parts”.

“The applicant is being hounded by steady surveillance by inimical parts who’re attempting to hint the applicant in any respect potential locations leaving no possibility for the applicant however to make sure his security in confines. Menace to the lifetime of the applicant is evident, current, grave, imminent and potential and bodily look of applicant earlier than the court docket is more likely to lend a chance to annihilate the applicant,” the applying claimed.

It claimed that even to seem by means of video convention was “extraordinarily unsafe” as Mr.Yadav’s location is likely to be detected by use of digital expertise. The applicant is eager to earn his innocence by means of trial and is represented by his counsel, it claimed.