Delhi court convicts 4 for 2008 murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, all 5 under MCOCA

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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted four accused Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Ajay Kumar and Baljeet Malik for the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in the capital 15 years ago...

The fifth accused, Ajay Sethi, was convicted by Delhis Saket court for the offence of receiving stolen property..

All five accused have also been convicted under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)...

The 25-year-old scribe with Headlines Today, now India Today, was killed in the early hours of 30 September, 2008 at Vasant Vihars Nelson Mandela Road in what the police claimed was a case of armed robbery...

In 2017, a trial court had sentenced Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla to death, and handed down a life sentence to Baljeet Malik in the Jigisha Ghosh murder case.. The Delhi High Court had commuted the death sentences of Kapoor and Shukla in 2018..

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