Life Imprisonment To Four Convicts Of Soumya Vishwanathan’s Murder

New Delhi: After almost 15 years of the crime, the Saket Court of New Delhi has sentenced life imprisonment to the four convicts of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan’s case. These convicts are: Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljit Malik and Ajay Kumar. The fifth convict, Ajay Sethi, has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment.

The court has noted that this act of the four convicts doesn’t fall in the category of ‘rarest of rare’, and hence a death penalty cannot be imposed.

Soumya Vishwanathan a journalist with India Today group, was shot dead on September 30, 2008, while returning home after working till early hours. She was murdered at South Delhi’s Nelson Mandela Marg.

(this is a developing story)