A division bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Manoj Jain admitted the appeals moved by four convicts Ravi Kapoor, Baljeet Singh Malik, Amit Shukla and Ajay Kumar challenging the order of the trial court. The High Court will hear the appeals in due course.
On January 11, 2024, a PCR call alerted police to a potential suicide at a rented house in Laxmi Park, Nihal Vihar. Upon arrival, officers found the deceased lying on the bed in a first-floor room.
They alongwith two others were convicted for murder and running a crime syndicate. The court had directed that convicts shall undergo the life sentence consecutively.
Delhi's Saket District Court on Friday reserved an order on the pronouncement of the quantum of sentence in the murder case of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.
Delhi's Saket District Court on Tuesday deferred hearing on arguments on sentence as the verification of affidavits of convicts reports from the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DLSA) has not been filed.
Following a Delhi court's decision to sentence the accused in the journalist Soumya Vishwanathan murder case to seven years in prison, Madhvi Vishwanathan, the victim's mother, insisted on a life-term punishment, asserting that the convicts should experience the suffering that her family wen
The arrested accused identified as Sohail and Jubair were apprehended on Thursday near Burari in the national capital, while they were trying to escape from Delhi to Punjab, the police said.