Jigisha murder case: Court reserves judgement for July 14

A Delhi court today decided to pronounce its judgement in the 2009 murder case of IT executive Jigisha Ghosh, in which three men are facing trial, next week.
Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav fixed the matter for pronouncement of the verdict on July 14 after hearing final arguments of the prosecutor and defence counsel.
During the arguments, Special Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan said there was ample evidence against the accused to hold them guilty for the offences, including the murder of the victim over seven years ago.
Advocate Amit Kumar, appearing for accused Amit Shukla and Baljit Singh Malik, argued that the prosecution has not been able to probe its case beyond reasonable doubt and there was no such evidence which could connect the accused persons for the offence of murder.

According to the prosecution, 28-year-old Jigisha, who was working with Hewitt Associate Pvt Ltd as operations manager, was abducted and killed on March 18, 2009 after she was dropped near her home in Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi by her official cab around 4 am.
Apart from Shukla and Malik, the other accused facing trial in the case is Ravi Kapoor. The trial had begun on April 15, 2010 with examination of her father as the first prosecution witness.

The court had framed charges against the accused under IPC and Arms Act, dealing with murder, criminal conspiracy, abduction, robbery, forgery and using firearms.

The recovery of the weapon allegedly used in the murder of the IT executive had led to the cracking of the murder case of Soumya Vishwanathan who was a journalist with a news channel. Soumya was shot dead on September 30, 2008 while she was returning home by her car from office in the wee hours.
Police had claimed robbery as the motive behind the killing of Jigisha and Soumya.
The accused had used Jigisha's ATM card to buy expensive goggles, wrist watches and shoes from Sarojini Nagar market, police had said.
Her body was recovered on March 21, 2009 from a place near Surajkund in Haryana, it said.