new delhi though bharti yadav successfully hid behind a veil in public when she came for her court deposition in 2006 she helped the trial court unveil the motive which led to the conviction of her brothers in the nitish katara murder case on wednesdayit was bhartis two day incamera testimony during which vikas refused to come to court on the ground of illness that convinced additional sessions judge ravinder kaur that her family was aware of her relationship with nitish he knew of the relationship and had no courage to face bharti for his misdeeds observed asj kaur refusing to believe bhartis claim that though she was very close to nitish her family didnt know anything and so vikas and vishal couldnt have been enraged about the affairin a case in which four witnesses turned hostile bhartis balancing act left both the defence and the prosecution guessing which way her testimony would swing the case as wednesday showed she had admitted just enough for the court to draw the inference that she and nitish were in love the two planned to marry and this was violently opposed by vikas leading to the ghastly murderi cant lose sight of the fact that bharti is the real sister of vikasshe was sent to uk days after the murder asj kaur added reasoning that had the relationship not been intimate there was no need to send her abroad the court also relied on comprehensive documentary evidence tabled by the prosecution consisting of greeting cards a valentines day album call records and even a joint bank account to conclude the two had planned a future together which was abruptly cut short by vikas and vishal greeting cards and call records of bharti and nitish prove beyond doubt that they had a love affair and both planned to marry the court recordedduring her testimony in november 2006 bharti had admitted that nitish was the only nonfamily member who accompanied them to mumbai in 2001 to celebrate her sister bhawnas birthday this fact struck asj kaur who pointed out in her verdict that no other friends went on the mumbai trip except nitish indicating intimacyher plight is understandable as on one hand it was her past who was no longer alive and on the other hand her two brothers were behind bars she must have been under tremendous pressure from her family to save her brothers by any means and thus tried to make a balanced statement an empathetic asj kaur observed while making sense of bhartis contribution to the casebut at the same time bhartis disowning her marriage plans before the court elicited a caustic remark i feel that by her conduct she didnt do justice to the soul of nitish without whom she had claimed she couldnt surviveperhaps in her balanced statement bharti tilted towards ensuring that nitish got justice