The Delhi High Court on Thursday reduced the death sentence of the two convicts in the Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday reduced the death sentence of the two convicts in the Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment.
A two-judge bench of Justice S. Murlidhar and Justice I.S. Mehta commuted the death sentence awarded to convicts Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla to life imprisonment.
In 2017, a trial court had convicted three men of murdering Jigisha Ghosh.
While convicts Kapoor and Shukla were handed down the death penalty, the third offender Baljeet Malik was awarded life imprisonment by the trial court.
The three convicts abducted 28-year-old Jigisha, an operations manager with Hewitt Associate Pvt Ltd at its Noida office, and robbed her of her gold jewellery, two mobile phones, and debit and credit cards on March 18, 2009.
The three convicts were also accused of murdering television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan on September 30, 2008 while she was returning home from her office.
Jigisha, 28, was working with Hewitt Associate Pvt Ltd as an operations manager, was abducted and killed on March 18, 2009, after she was dropped near her home in Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi by her official cab around 4 am.
The trial had begun on April 15, 2010 with examination of her father as the first prosecution witness.
The court had framed charges against the accused under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Arms Act, dealing with murder, criminal conspiracy, abduction, robbery, forgery and using firearms.
The recovery of the weapon allegedly used in the murder of Jigisha also led to the cracking of the Soumya murder case.
Defence lawyers had sought lenient punishment for the convicts citing their family situation. However, Savita Ghosh, Jigisha's mother, had said that the accused have committed cold-blooded murder, and therefore, should be given the death sentence.
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