INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The court also imposed a fine of ?1.25 lakh on the four convicts.The fifth accused has been sentenced to jail for three years.Soumya
Vishwanathan was shot dead in her car in Vasant Kunj on September 30, 2008, when she was returning home from work.On Friday, the court had
reserved its order on the pronouncement of the quantum of sentence in the murder case.Trial judge Ravindra Kumar Pandey had reserved the
verdict after detailed arguments
and multiple penalties on them
Judge Pandey convicted four accused -- Ravi Kapoor, Ajay Kumar, Baljeet Malik and Amit Shukla -- under the murder and MCOCA charges.The
court convicted the four men for the murder
The fifth accused, Ajay Sethi, was convicted under Section 411 of the Indian Penal Code for retaining the offending vehicle.Soumya
She was an employee of a private television news channel.The police zeroed in on the convicts while investigating the murder of Jigisha
