Saket Court convicts four persons for the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan
The Hindu
Court in Delhi convicts four for 2008 murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan. Breakthrough in case came in 2009 during investigation of BPO employee Jigisha's murder.
The Saket court in New Delhi on October 18, 2023, convicted four persons for the murder of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan.
The court also convicted one more person for receiving stolen property.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Pandey had reserved the judgrment on Friday.
Soumya was shot dead on September 30, 2008, while returning home from work in her car at 3:30 a.m. on Nelson Mandela Marg in south Delhi.
The police had claimed robbery was the motive behind her killing. Five people — Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik, Ajay Kumar and Ajay Sethi — were arrested for killing her and are in custody since March 2009.
The police had invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the accused.
The breakthrough in the case came in 2009 during the investigation in the murder of BPO employee Jigisha when one of the accused confessed to also being involved in the journalist’s murder.
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