Fifteen years after the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, Delhi’s Saket Court pronounced the accused guilty in the case on Wednesday.
The court convicted four accused in the murder case. The fifth accused has been convicted for other offences in the case. All five accused have also been convicted under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), ANI reported.
After the arrest of the accused in March 2009, it took the prosecution over 13 years to present all the evidence before the court in the case. The trial, which began in February 2010, concluded today as the case reached its closure at the Saket Court, India Today reported.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Pandey reserved the judgment in the case on October 13 after the completion of arguments by the defence and prosecution.
About the murder case
On September 30, 2008, Vishwanathan was shot dead on her way back to home from work in her car at around 3:30 am. According to police, the motive behind her killing was robbery.
Police apprehended five men – Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik, Ajay Kumar and Ajay Sethi- for killing her and are in custody since March 2009.
Police had invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the accused.
The recovery of the weapon used in IT executive Jigisha Ghosh’s killing had led to the cracking of Vishwanathan’s murder case, police said.