“I’m reaching residence in 5 minutes. Maintain my breakfast prepared”: That was her final telephone name.
14 years after 28-year-old Jigisha Ghosh’s homicide, her mom Sabita Ghosh recalled the painful day as the decision was delivered in Headlines Immediately journalist Soumya Vishwanathan’s homicide case.
The murders of her daughter and Soumya are deeply interlinked. Three of the boys accused and consequently convicted in each circumstances are the identical. They had been the identical gang that attacked each girls, once they had been returning residence from work.
Jigisha Ghosh, an I-T government, was kidnapped and murdered in March 2009, simply few meters from her residence in Vasant Vihar. She was returning residence early within the morning, after ending displays for a US mission.
Soumya, a 25-year-old journalist with Headlines Immediately, was killed at Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on September 30, 2008, whereas she was on her manner residence from work. Her physique was present in her automobile. She had suffered a headshot.
Although Soumya’s homicide occurred a yr earlier than, the police solely managed to crack the case after they arrested Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla and Baljeet Malik within the Jigisha homicide and theft case.
“Soumya’s case was a blind case, there was no proof, until the arrests in my daugher’s case,” mentioned Sabita Ghosh.
“In my daughter’s case, they discovered exhausting proof, like her ornaments, her cell phone. They might hint the gadgets they purchased along with her playing cards. They purchased caps, wrist watch and footwear along with her playing cards. However my daughter used to signal horizontally. Whereas Ravi Kapoor had signed in opposition to the cardboard bills vertically. That was one clear proof which confirmed that there was theft and embezzlement linked to the homicide,” she added.
The Delhi Police managed to attach the dots between each circumstances after the accused allegedly confessed to taking pictures Soumya Vishwanathan in the same theft try.
Soumya Vishwanathan’s household and Jigisha Ghosh’s household lived inside a stone’s throw of one another, in South Delhi’s Vasant Vihar space.
Within the preliminary days of each investigations, each households saved in contact with one another. However Jigisha’s case wrapped up earlier, with demise sentence being awarded to 2 of the convicts and life sentence to the third in 2016. It was across the similar time that Soumya Vishwanathan’s case hit authorized hurdles, with change in public prosecutor.
The sentence for 2 of the accused in Jigisha case was later commuted to life by the Delhi Excessive courtroom.
“After the trial obtained over, we moved to Noida, and haven’t been in contact with Soumya’s household. However am very completely happy that she and her household have lastly obtained justice that they deserve,” mentioned Mrs Ghosh.
Although in each circumstances the prosecution has managed to get a conviction, the households nonetheless look ahead to closure.
“My daughter was a shy lady. She was simply 4 years into her job. She had a vibrant future forward of her. We wished demise sentence for the accused. However we had already gone by means of an extended authorized battle in our outdated age, and so we determined in opposition to interesting within the Supreme Court docket,” Mrs Ghosh mentioned.
Sentencing within the Soumya Vishwanathan homicide case is scheduled for October 26.