Jigisha Ghosh's murderers drove her to a deserted area where they killed her and abandoned her. (File)
Highlights
- Jigisha Ghosh, 28, was call centre exec in Noida near Delhi
- Abducted when she was dropped home by office car
- Same men accused of shooting young TV news producer in Delhi
Three men have been found guilty of robbing and murdering call centre executive Jigisha Ghosh in 2009 in Delhi. The same men are charged separately with shooting a young TV executive in the capital.
Ms Ghosh, 28, was abducted by a group of men when she was dropped off by an office car at the entrance to her apartment complex in South Delhi after working the late shift at her call centre in Noida. She was forced into their car at gunpoint and made to share the pin for her ATM card.
The men then drove Ms Ghosh to a deserted area on the outskirts of Delhi where they killed the young woman and abandoned her body. "I can never forget the images of her body left in some bushes," said her mother, Sabita Ghosh on Thursday. On August 20, when her daughter's killers are to be sentenced, she would like them to get the death penalty, she told NDTV.
The men convicted on Thursday - Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla and Baljit Singh Malik - were caught after they were recorded on security cameras withdrawing cash using Ms Ghosh's ATM card and buying shoes and watches in a South Delhi market.
After they were arrested, the police said that the same men had, six months earlier, in September 2008, shot TV news producer Soumya Vishwanathan who was driving home from her office, again, late at night. The men allegedly tailed Ms Vishwanathan and harassed her before shooting her in the head - the police says they most likely wanted to rob her.
One of the convicts, Ravi Kapoor, allegedly told interrogators that Ms Ghosh had begged for her life to be spared because she was the sole care-giver for her elderly parents, who she lived with. "They killed my daughter in cold blood," Ms Ghosh's mother said on Thursday. "She did not resist, she gave them her all her belongings, but she was still murdered."