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New Delhi: Delhi’s Saket court has handed life imprisonment to all the four men convicted in the murder of Delhi journalist Soumya Vishwanathan.
Vishwanathan was shot dead in her car in Vasant Kunj on September 30, 2008, when she was returning home from work.
On Friday, the court had reserved its order on the pronouncement of the quantum of sentence in the murder case of the television journalism.
Trial judge Ravindra Kumar Pandey had reserved the verdict after detailed arguments. During the arguments, the public prosecutor told the court that apart from the convict Amit Shukla, the DLSA had given an “unsatisfactory” report of conduct in jail.
“However, a report from the Jail superintendent has shown ‘unsatisfactory conduct’ by three of the five convicts and multiple penalties on them. We don’t know how the DLSA report and Jail report are different,” the public prosecutor said.
In October, Judge Pandey had convicted four accused — Ravi Kapoor, Ajay Kumar, Baljeet Malik and Amit Shukla — under the murder and MCOCA charges.
The police claimed the motive behind Soumya Vishwanathan’s murder was robbery.
The court had convicted the four men for the murder. The fifth accused, Ajay Sethi, was convicted under Section 411 of the Indian Penal Code for retaining the offending vehicle.
Soumya Vishwanathan’s mother had demanded life imprisonment for the convicts.
The journalist was shot dead at Vasant Kunj’s Nelson Mandela Marg. She was an employee of a private television news channel.
The police zeroed in on the accused while investigating the murder of Jigisha Ghosh.
With inputs from ANI
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