A Delhi court today sent two of Jigisha Ghosh's killers to the gallows while the third convict has been sentenced to life imprisonment for their involvement in the abduction and murder of the IT executive in 2009.

Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav awarded the death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla, while the third accused, Baljeet Malik was sentenced to life in prison. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Ravi and Amit, and Rs 3 lakh on Baljeet.



The three accused had abducted and killed 28-year-old Ghosh on March 18, 2009 after she was dropped by her office cab near her home in Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi. Her body was recovered three days later from a place near Surajkund in Haryana.

Jigisha was working as an operations manager in management consultancy firm, Hewitt Associates Pvt Ltd. in Noida.

Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Rajiv Mohan had argued that the accused had committed the crime solely for the sake of pleasure and told the trial court that the accused are also facing trial under MCOCA. They even used her debit card for shopping after she was killed, a remorseless act that was caught on camera too.



The Delhi Police had on Saturday sought death penalty for the three men on the grounds that they killed Jigisha for "pleasure" and showed no remorse.

"There was no provocation. There is no mitigating factor in the matter. It was murder for pleasure. The footage shows they had no remorse at all, which is an aggravating factor," Mohan said.

During arguments, when the SPP referred to the alleged involvement of the three convicts in the Soumya Vishwanathan murder case, the defence counsel objected to it saying it was a separate case which was still pending and referring to it would cause them prejudice during the proceedings.

The court had, a month ago, held the three men guilty of murder, abduction, robbery, forgery and common intention under IPC, saying it was "abundantly clear" that they had committed the crime. Kapoor was also convicted for the offence of using firearms under the Arms Act.

While convicting them on July 14, the judge had said "they committed her murder and disposed of her body in bushes and circumstantial evidence makes it clear that it was these men who committed the crime."

The police had filed the chargesheet in the case in June 2009 and trial began on April 15, 2010.

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