Delhi’s Saket court will today pronounce the quantum of sentence for the three convicted in the Jigisha Murder case, news agency ANI reported.
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The court said it was proved that the three convicts had abducted Jigisha, robbed her of her gold chain, two mobile phones, two rings and debit and credit cards and killed her.
“To be hanged by neck till death”, Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav said while awarding the sentence.
“Pre-sentencing report received.Copy has been supplied to counsel for the convicts”.
“I had hope for the two convicts to get death penalty and that is exactly what happened”, Jigisha’s mother said.
However, the judge ordered for maintaining confidentiality of the report.
Jigisha Ghosh, 28, an IT executive, was kidnapped and killed after her office cab dropped her near her home in Vasant Vihar in south Delhi. Her body was found a day later, near Surajkund in Faridabad. There is no mitigating factor in the matter.
Baljeet and Amit Shukla have spent over seven years in jail.
The defence lawyer sought a minimum sentence of life term, asserting that one of the accused, Ravi Kapoor was suffering from a “life-threatening disease” besides having aged parents. Kapoor was also convicted for the offence of using firearms under the Arms Act.
The media, quoting police sources, said that the three guilty in the Jigisha Ghosh murder are accused of murdering television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.
The trial had begun on April 15, 2010, with examination of her father as the first prosecution witness.
The court said the convicts killed Jigisha even after she pleaded for her life and the convicts were satisfied only by brutally mauling her to death.
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Soumya was shot dead on September 30, 2008 while she was returning home in her auto from office in the wee hours.
