SOUMYA'S MOTHER MOVES SC AGAINST BAIL TO CONVICTS

THE mother of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan on Saturday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court order granting bail to all the four convicts in her daughter’s murder case.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY

Seeking reversal of the order, Madhavi Viswanathan filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the top court. The matter is likely to be heard by a bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal.

On February 12, the Delhi High Court had suspended the sentences of Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Singh Malik, and Ajay Kumar who were serving life imprisonments, and granted them bail pending the outcome of their appeals challenging their conviction and sentences.

The Delhi HC ordered the suspension of the sentences and granted bail to them, saying that they had already served 14 years and 9 months of imprisonment.