Verdict in Yug case deferred

Tribune News Service

Shimla, July 17 

District and Sessions Judge Virender Singh on Tuesday deferred the verdict in the four-year-old Yug Gupta murder case till Tuesday.

All three accused in the sensational case, Chander Sharma, Tajender and Vikrant, were booked under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (disappearance of evidence/false information), 342 (wrongful confinement), 364-A (kidnapping for ransom) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

Yug was abducted from the courtyard of his house in the busy Ram Bazar on June 14, 2014, and was killed after seven days even before the call for ransom was made. His skeletal remains were recovered from a water tank of the Shimla Municipal Corporation in Kelston on August 21, 2016, after the inquiry was handed over to the CID, crime branch.