A Delhi court on Monday Aug 22,2016 sentenced Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla to death and Baljeet Malik to life for murdering and robbing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh in 2009, observing that it was a "brutal" and "cold blooded murder".
During arguments on the quantum of punishment, Delhi Police asked for death penalty for the convicts, saying they killed her for "pleasure" and showed no remorse.
The judge observed that gruesome crimes against women were on the rise and any leniency to the criminals would send a wrong message to society. "The offence was committed in a brutal, cold blooded and cruel manner.
The victim was helpless and remained in captivity for hours and the convicts brutally mauled her to death. It was an uncivilised act done in a barbaric manner.
The magnitude and brutality of the crime makes it fall in the category of rarest of rare," the judge said.
Twenty-eight year old Jigisha, working as an operations manager in a management consultancy firm, was abducted and killed on March 18, 2009, after she was dropped by her office cab around 4 am near her home in Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi. Her body was recovered three days later from a place near Surajkund in Haryana.
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