{"id":43889,"date":"2016-07-14T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T05:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43889"},"modified":"2016-07-14T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T05:41:53","slug":"jigisha-murder-case-court-convicts-three-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jigisha-murder-case-court-convicts-three-men","title":{"rendered":"Jigisha murder case: Court convicts three men"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43890\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43890\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jigisha-murder-case-court-convicts-three-men\/download-4\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?fit=318%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"318,159\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"download (4)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?fit=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?fit=318%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-43890\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?resize=328%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jigisha murder case: Court convicts three men\" width=\"328\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/download-4.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jigisha murder case: Court convicts three men<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three men were today convicted for murdering and robbing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009 by a city court which said it was &#8220;abundantly clear&#8221; that they had committed the crime<\/p>\n<p>28-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 0400 hours near her home in Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi. Her body was recovered three days later from a place near Surajkund in Haryana, police had said.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav held accused Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla and Baljit Singh Malik guilty of the offences of murder, abduction, robbery, forgery and common intention under the IPC. Kapoor was also convicted for the offence of using firearms under the Arms Act.<\/p>\n<p>While pronouncing the judgement, the judge said &#8220;they (accused) committed her murder and disposed of her body in bushes and circumstantial evidence makes it clear that it was these men who committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is abundantly clear from evidence that they committed the crime. There is no missing link of crime (and) hence innocence is ruled out. It is proved on record that Jigisha did not return home on expected time on the day of incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court said it was proved that the three convicts had abducted Jigisha, robbed her of her gold chain, two mobile phones, two rings and debit and credit cards and killed her.<\/p>\n<p>The court fixed August 20 for hearing arguments on quantum of sentence.<\/p>\n<p>It also asked Delhis Home Secretary to immediately appoint probation officers for filing reports on the background of the convicts and their conduct in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The court had reserved the verdict on July 5 after hearing final arguments of the prosecutor and defence counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Special Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan had said there was ample evidence against the accused to hold them guilty of the offences.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Amit Kumar, appearing for accused Amit Shukla and Baljit Singh Malik, had argued that prosecution has not been able to probe its case beyond reasonable doubt and there was no evidence which could connect the accused persons for the offence of murder.<\/p>\n<p>The three convicts are currently in jail under judicial custody.<\/p>\n<p>(Source : PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men were today convicted for murdering and robbing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009 by a city court which said it was &#8220;abundantly clear&#8221; that they had committed the crime 28-year-old Jigisha, working as an operations manager in a management consultancy firm, was abducted and killed on March 18, 2009 after she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":43890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[146,31987,37117,117,80],"class_list":["post-43889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-jigisha-murder-case","tag-law","tag-legal-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jigisha murder case: Court convicts three men - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Three men were today convicted for murdering and robbing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009 by a city court which said it was &quot;abundantly clear&quot; that - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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