Supreme Court Notifies Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan’s Killers Regarding Bail Petition

The Delhi Police and the convicts have been given four weeks to respond to a plea filed by Madhavi Vishwanathan, seeking the cancellation of bail granted by the Delhi High Court to the four convicts serving life imprisonment. In September 2008, Soumya Vishwanathan, a television journalist, was shot dead while driving home from work on South Delhi’s Nelson Mandela Marg. The motive behind her murder was initially stated as robbery. Three months after the four were given life sentences, the Delhi High Court suspended their sentence and granted them bail pending the appeals challenging their conviction and sentence.

The High Court justified its decision based on the fact that the four convicts had already spent nearly 15 years in jail since their arrest in connection with the case. In addition to the murder of Soumya Vishwanathan, these convicts are serving sentences related to the murder of IT professional Jigisha Ghosh, who was kidnapped and killed in March 2009 near her home in Vasant Vihar.