Jigisha Ghosh murder case: Convicts get death and life sentences

A Delhi court yesterday awarded death penalty to two convicts and life term to another for robbing and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009, observing that it was a “brutal” and “cold-blooded murder

New Delhi: A Delhi court yesterday awarded death penalty to two convicts and life term to another for robbing and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009, observing that it was a “brutal” and “cold-blooded murder.”

Jigisha Ghosh

“To be hanged by neck till death,” Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav said, while awarding death to convicts Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla. The 28-year-old Jigisha was working as an operations manager when she was abducted and killed on March 18, 2009 after she was dropped by her office cab around 4 am near her home.

“The offence was committed in a brutal, cold-blooded and cruel manner. The victim was helpless and remained in captivity for hours and the convicts brutally mauled her to death. The magnitude and brutality of the crime makes it fall in the category of rarest of rare,” the judge said. Besides Ravi and Amit, the court sentenced Baljeet to life imprisonment.

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