New Delhi, April 2 -- Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year-long jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, has moved the Supreme Court seeking interim release from jail in view of her mother's health condition.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan asked the medical board, to be constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government to examine Yadav's mother, to file its report before it.

The bench also sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government and complainant -- Katara's mother, on an application filed by of Yadav seeking interim release. It has now posted the matter for hearing on April 15.

During the hearing of the case, the Uttar Pradesh government said it would constitute a medical board to examine the health cond...