The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Delhi government to a plea challenging interim bail granted to four convicts in the 2008 Soumya Viswanathan murder case.A Bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal also sought the response of the four convicts in the matter and listed the case for hearing after four weeks.The Court was hearing an appeal filed by the mother of the deceased journalist against a recent Delhi High Court ruling that suspended the life sentence of four men convicted for the murder.The four are now out on bail pending the disposal of their appeals against conviction and life sentence.Delhi’s Saket Court had on November 24, 2023 sentenced the four accused to life imprisonment for the murder of Soumya Viswanathan.Viswanathan was a journalist working with India Today. She was found dead in her car in Vasant Kunj in September 2008.Forensic reports indicated that she died due to a bullet wound in her head. According to the police, Vishwanathan was returning home late at night from her office when she was chased and shot.The breakthrough in the case came in March 2009, when the police arrested Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla for their involvement in another case.In the disclosure statements, they confessed to the murder.The trial court found Kapoor, Shukla, Kumar and Malik guilty of Vishwanathan’s murder. They were convicted under Sections 302 (murder) and 34 (offence committed with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).All four of them were also held guilty under Section 3(1) (i)of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)
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