New Delhi, Aug 22 : A court here on Monday awarded the death penalty to two convicts for kidnapping and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh in 2009.
Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav awarded the death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla and sentenced the third accused, Baljeet Malik, to life imprisonment, saying the “magnitude and brutality” of the crime made it a rarest of rare case.
The court said the offence was committed in a cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner.
The court said the convicts killed the victim even after she pleaded for her life.
It said that gruesome crimes against women is on rise and showing leniency will send a wrong message to the society.
While awarding the death penalty, to Kapoor and Shukla, the court relied upon the report submitted by probation officer which recommended the extreme penalty, observing that they can not be reformed and rehabilitated.
The probation officer said Malik’s behaviour was normal throughout the trial.
Jigisha’s parents welcomed the verdict and said that justice has been done to her.
“I had hope for the two convicts to get death penalty and that is exactly what happened,” Jigisha’s mother said.
The court on July 14 convicted the trio under Section 302 (murder), Section 201 (destruction of evidence), Section 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), Section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery), Section 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), Section 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), Section 482 (punishment for using a false property mark) with Section 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan sought the maximum punishment for the convicts as they have shown no remorse while killing Jigisha.
The convicts are also facing trial for killing journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and a taxi driver, the prosecution told the court.
The efence counsel pleaded for leniency, contending that the convicts were young.
Jigisha, 28, who was working with Hewitt Associates Pvt Ltd as an operations manager, was kidnapped and killed on March 18, 2009 after her office cab dropped her near home in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar around 4 a.m.
Her body was recovered on March 20, 2009 near Surajkund in Haryana.
Police later arrested Kapoor, Shukla and Malik in the case.—IANS
Justice must be done. This is a late but good way forward for this crime.
So realise the need of Islamic Sharia law, which was pleaded by MNS chief Raj Thackery.
https://muslimmirror.com/eng/raj-thackeray-damands-sharia-like-laws-to-check-crimes-against-women/
July 25, 2016
Raj Thackeray damands ‘Sharia’ like laws to check crimes against women
Raj Thackeray
“Ahmednagar : Slamming the BJP-led state government over the gang rape and murder of a minor girl in Ahmednagar, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Monday said there was a need for a law like Sharia (Islamic) to check serious crimes against women and children.
He said the hands and legs of those who rape and kill minors and women should be cut off…………………………………………”
In the comments thread of the above news report please have a look how people like Secular Hindu, Varun spewed venom against Islam.
More they spew venom, more women will be raped. They (Secular Hindu, Varun) want to flourish ‘Rape culture’
Sharia law provides no justice to women. Sharia law ensures women are treated as second-class citizens. Look at how women who report rapes in Saudi Arabia are imprisoned for “adultery”.
My daughter was Murdered in BARBADOS, by an Indian and a black man.
They tortured her for hours ,while she begged for her life,then bound and gagged her and stood her to balance on two 1 gallon paint cans, with a wire noose around her neck, that was tied to a stair rail.
They drank and watched her balance until she fell off and strangled to death ,they still watched till she finally died.
Then took her down and picked her pockets of 50$ birthday money, she was 16 the day before they murdered her, and took her Birthday gift silver chain from round her neck.
The BARBADOS DPP who is an INDIAN GUYANESE, put the men before the Court separately, so as they did not have to give evidence against each other.
The DPP of BARBADOS then gave conflicting evidence at two separate court hearings that made it so that the murderer NOT in Court was guilty and the one in Court was merely an accomplice, then at the second hearing totally reversed he words, virtually just making them accomplices of each other and neither having been responsible
The DPP of BARBADOS then told each of the courts, my daughter HAD SLIPPED OFF the paint cans!!!
As tho she just had been playing around and SLIPPED OFF.
She was bound hand and foot with wire and gagged and pulled up on her toes with the wire round her neck.
Yet the DPP of BARBADOS maintained SHE SLIPPED OFF.
The DPP of BARBADOS allowed these MURDERERS to plead guilty to MANSLAUGHTER.
He also allowed the sentences of these two murderers, to be cut by many years as the men were previously OF GOOD CHARACTER.
My daughter ANNA was just 16 by one day, when she was murdered and tortured by these two animals.
The BARBADOS GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED THE DPP AND ALLOWED THE SENTENCES TO STAND.
PLEASE EXPRESS YOUR DISGUST.
PLEASE WARN ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO INTENDS TO VISIT THIS CORRUPT ISLAND