The mother of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan moved the Supreme Court on Saturday challenging the Delhi High Court order granting bail and suspending the sentences of all four convicts serving two life imprisonments for her murder.
Soumya's mother Madhavi Viswanathan filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the top court and it was expected that the matter would be heard by the SC bench led by Justice Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal.
The Delhi High Court had on February 12 suspended the sentences of Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Singh Malik and Ajay Kumar, and also granted them bail pending the outcome of their appeals challenging their conviction and sentence before it.
The Delhi HC passed the order of their suspension of the sentences and granting bail to all the four convicts, after considering the fact that they had already served 14 years and 9 months of imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, Soumya was fatally shot 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. All the four convicts were apprehended and convicted to two life imprisonments by the trial court in November last year.
The trial court had convicted them all under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 302 (murder), and MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Liquor Organised Crime Act).
The trial court's order was challenged by the four convicts before the Delhi HC, which was hearing their appeal against their conviction and sentences. In between, the HC granted them bail and suspended their sentences, till it completes hearing their appeal.
