India, July 29 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of Sukhdev Yadav alias Pehalwan, one of the three men convicted of killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002, observing that he had completed his jail sentence of 20 years in March this year.

The ruling came hours after another bench extended the interim bail granted to Vikas Yadav, also convicted in the same case, by four more weeks, but rejected his plea that challenged the court order stipulating he spend 25 years in prison without remission.

Pehalwan had moved the top court to seek his release after serving 20 years in prison in view of the top court's October 2016 verdict that replaced the punishment of a life sentence with 20 years in prison without remissio...