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More than 15 years after television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan was shot dead during a robbery bid at the heart of the national capital, a Delhi court convicted four persons of an organised crime syndicate for murder and other offences, saying charges against them are “duly proved beyond all reasonable doubt”.
In one of the sensational incidents of 2008, Vishwanathan, who was working with a leading English news channel , was shot dead in the wee hours of September 30 on Nelson Mandela Marg while she was returning home from work. Police had claimed that the motive behind the killing was robbery.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ravindra Kumar Pandey convicted Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik and Ajay Kumar for offence of murder and common intention under the IPC.
“We don’t believe in death penalty. We demand life imprisonment for convicts, they should suffer what we went through,” said Madhavi Vishwanathan, mother of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, who was shot dead 15 years ago.
Speaking to reporters soon after a Delhi court convicted four people for the murder of Soumya Vishwanathan , Madhavi Vishwanathan as reported by PTI said the verdict will act as a deterrent for other such people who would have been emboldened had her daughter’s killers gone unpunished.
The journalist’s father M K Vishwanathan, who spent a sleepless night on Tuesday ahead of the court order, said though his daughter will not come back now, he is happy that justice has been delivered.
