A trial court, which has sentenced two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to death, has sent the case file to the Delhi high court for confirmation of the capital punishment.
A trial court, which has sentenced two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to death, has sent the case file to the Delhi high court for confirmation of the capital punishment.
Additional sessions judge Sandeep Yadav has sent the case record relating to the conviction and death sentence of Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla to the high court, court sources said.
It is mandatory for the trial court to refer a death penalty case to a high court for confirmation of sentence within 30 days of the pronouncement of the verdict.
The sessions judge had on July 14 held the duo guilty on various counts, including the murder of 28-year-old IT executive Jigisha Ghosh.
The court while sentencing the two to death, said the girl was killed in a “cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner” and “brutally mauled to death”. It had said the magnitude and brutality exhibited by the convicts made the case ‘rarest of rare’, warranting capital punishment for Kapoor and Shukla. The third offender Baljeet Malik was given reprieve for his good conduct in jail. The two have not yet challenged the trial court judgement. However, Malik through his counsel has moved the HC challenging his conviction.
