Journalist Vishwanathan's mother moves SC against bail granted to 4 life convicts

They were serving life imprisonment in 2008 case of her daughter’s murder

The mother of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan has moved the Supreme Court against the bail granted to four convicts who were serving life imprisonment in the 2008 case of her daughter’s murder.

The Delhi High Court on February 12 suspended the sentence of Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Singh Malik and Ajay Kumar and granted them bail till the pendency of their appeals challenging their conviction and sentence.

Kapoor, Shukla and Malik were also convicted in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case and are still in jail.

Vishwanathan, who worked with a leading English news channel, was shot dead in the early hours of September 30, 2008, on Nelson Mandela Marg in south Delhi while she was returning home from work in her car. An apex court bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal is likely to hear the plea filed by Soumya’s mother Madhavi Viswanathan.

While granting relief to the convicts, the high court had noted that they have been in custody for 14 years.