A Delhi court has sent two of Jigisha Ghosh's killers to the gallows on Monday while the third convict has been sentenced to life imprisonment for their involvement in the abduction and murder of the IT executive in 2009.

While the trial court gave death sentence to accused Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik was given the life sentence. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Ravi and Amit, and Rs 3 lakh on Baljeet.

The three accused had abducted and killed 28 years old Jigisha Ghosh on March 18, 2009 after she was dropped by her office cab near her home in Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi. Her body was discovered three days later from a place near Surajkund in Haryana.

Jigisha had been working as an operations manager in management consultancy firm, Hewitt Associates Pvt Ltd. in Noida.

Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Rajiv Mohan had argued that the accused had committed the crime solely for the sake of pleasure and told the trial court that the accused are also facing trial under MCOCA. They even used her debit card for shopping after she was killed, a remorseless act that was caught on camera too.

On Saturday, the Delhi Police had sought death penalty for the three men on the grounds that they killed Jigisha for "pleasure" and showed no remorse.

Mohan said, "There was no provocation. There is no mitigating factor in the matter. It was murder for pleasure. The footage shows they had no remorse at all, which is an aggravating factor" .

By Prakriti Neogi