New Delhi:
“I am reaching home in 5 minutes. Keep my breakfast ready”: 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 Today 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 govt, 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 shows for a US undertaking.
Soumya, a 25-year-old journalist with Headlines Today, was killed at Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on September 30, 2008, whereas she was on her method residence from work. Her physique was present in her automobile. She had suffered a headshot.
Though Soumya’s homicide occurred a 12 months 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 evidence, till the arrests in my daugher’s case,” mentioned Sabita Ghosh.
“In my daughter’s case, they found hard evidence, like her ornaments, her mobile phone. They could trace the items they bought with her cards. They bought caps, wrist watch and shoes with her cards. But my daughter used to sign horizontally. Whereas Ravi Kapoor had signed against the card expenses vertically. That was one clear evidence which showed that there was robbery and embezzlement linked to the murder,” she added.
The Delhi Police managed to attach the dots between each circumstances after the accused allegedly confessed to taking pictures Soumya Vishwanathan in an analogous 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.
In the preliminary days of each investigations, each households saved in contact with one another. But Jigisha’s case wrapped up earlier, with dying 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 High courtroom.
“After the trial got over, we moved to Noida, and have not been in touch with Soumya’s family. But am very happy that she and her family have finally got justice that they deserve,” mentioned Mrs Ghosh.
Even although in each circumstances the prosecution has managed to get a conviction, the households nonetheless anticipate closure.
“My daughter was a shy girl. She was just four years into her job. She had a bright future ahead of her. We wanted death sentence for the accused. But we had already gone through a long legal battle in our old age, and so we decided against appealing in the Supreme Court,” Mrs Ghosh mentioned.
Sentencing within the Soumya Vishwanathan homicide case is scheduled for October 26.
