Father of late journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, whose killers were sentenced to life imprisonment, passed away on Saturday, December 9. Four out of five convicts in the murder case of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan were sentenced to life imprisonment on November 25 while the fifth convict was given three years in jail.
Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan was killed in 2008.
Soumya’s 82-year-old father MK Vishwanathan was hospitalised just two days before the hearing after he suffered a heart attack, an indiatoday.in report said.
MK Vishwanathan was shown the court proceedings online at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) when the five accused were sentenced to imprisonment. The report said that the family informed the court that he was “groggy but had expressed the desire to watch the sentencing.”
SOUMYA VISHWANATHAN MURDER
Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, who was working with a leading English news channel, was shot dead in the early hours of September 30, 2008, at South Delhi’s Nelson Mandela Marg while she was returning home from work.
Police claimed the motive was a robbery. On October 18 this year, court convicted Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik, and Ajay Kumar under Indian Penal Code section 302 (murder) and Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions for committing organised crime resulting in the death of any person.
Ajay Sethi was convicted under IPC section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) and MCOCA provisions for conspiring to abet, aid, or knowingly facilitate organised crime and receiving proceeds of organised crime.
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