DELHI HIGH COURT DENIED PAROLE TO CONVICT IN JOURNALIST SOUMYA VISHWANATHAN, JIGISHA GHOSH MURDER CASES

The Delhi High Court in the case Ravi Kapoor v. State-NCT Of Delhi observed and has denied the parole to Ravi Kapoor, who is being convicted for the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha Ghosh and the various other cases.

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The bench headed by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in the case observed and has dismissed the petition moved by Kapoor while taking into account his criminal history, the gravity of the offence committed by him and his overall conduct inside the premises of jail.

In the present case, Ravi Kapoor, who is currently serving life sentence in the cases, had moved the petition before the court seeking parole for four weeks on the ground of maintaining social ties with his family and for undergoing a knee surgery.

The court observed that when the petition is moved last year, he was undergoing life sentence in the murder case of Jigisha Ghosh in the year 2009. Therefore, the trial court