A Delhi court on Monday awarded the death penalty to two convicts for kidnapping and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh in 2009.
Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav awarded the death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla and sentenced the third accused, Baljeet Malik, to life imprisonment, saying the “magnitude and brutality” of the crime made it a rarest of rare case.
The court said the offence was committed in a cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner and said the convicts killed the victim even after she pleaded for her life.
Jigisha’s parents welcomed the verdict and said that justice has been done.
“I had hope for the two convicts to get death penalty and that is exactly what happened,” Jigisha’s mother Savita Ghosh said. (Inputs: IANS)
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