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Soumya Vishwanathan was shot dead on September 30, 2008 while returning home from work in her car around 3:30 AM. Police had claimed robbery was the motive behind her killing
More than 15 years after television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan was killed, a Delhi Court on Wednesday convicted four accused persons.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ravindra Kumar Pandey of Saket Court convicted four accused Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Ajay Kumar and Baljeet Malik under provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
The judge also convicted the fifth accused Ajay Sethi under Section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property).
All the four accused persons have been convicted under Sections 302( (murder), Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, and provisions of MCOCA.
All five accused were produced before the court today, when the verdict was pronounced.
Notably, on October 13, the court had reserved its judgment in the 2008 murder case of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan. The ASJ had directed all the accused to be present in the court for verdict pronouncement.
Soumya Vishwanathan was shot dead on September 30, 2008, while returning home from work in her car around 3:30 AM. Police had claimed robbery was the motive behind her killing.
Five people namely, Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik, Ajay Kumar and Ajay Sethi were arrested for killing her and have been in custody since March 2009.
Police had invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions against the accused. Malik and two others, Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla were earlier convicted in the 2009 killing of IT executive Jigisha Ghosh.
Recovery of the weapon used in Jigisha Ghosh’s killing had led to the cracking of the murder case of Vishwanathan, police had said. The trial court had awarded death penalty to Kapoor and Shukla and a life term to Malik in the Jigisha Ghosh murder case in 2017.
Case Title: State v. Ravi Kapoor & Ors.
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