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"She was brutally killed even though she kept on begging for her life" — This has been mentioned by the Delhi Police in a chargesheet it filed in the Jigeesha Ghosh murder case on Saturday.

Ghosh, a 28-year-old executive with Hewitt Associates Pvt Ltd (Noida) and resident of the CPWD Colony in Vasant Vihar, was abducted by Ravi Kapoor and his friends from outside her home early on March 18 and later killed.

Having finished its investigations, the Vasant Vihar police have filed a chargesheet against Ravi Kapoor, the main accused, and two of his friends, Baljeet Singh, alias Poppy, and Amit Kumar Shukla. They along with two others, Ajay Sethi and Vijay Kumar, were also involved in the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan on September 30 last year. These murders had raised concerns over security for working women in Delhi. The accused were arrested on March 24.

DCP (South) H G S Dhaliwal said, "An intensive investigation was conducted in this case and our teams have done a lot of hard work. The challan (chargesheet) has also been filed in time."

In the Jigeesha Ghosh murder case, a 448-page chargesheet has been filed under various sections of the IPC, including 302 (murder), 201 (destruction of evidence), 365 (abduction), 397 (robbery with attempt to cause grievous hurt or death), 34 (common intention), several forgery sections including 468, 471 and the Arms Act against the three accused.

The chargesheet, filed 90 days after the accused were arrested, includes the testimonies of 59 witnesses, among them Jigeesha's family, police officers, forensic experts and others. The police have also submitted 10 photographs related to the accused persons and crime spots, and one CD and documents related to recovery of the weapons used by the accused persons while committing robberies and murders.

Since the courts are closed for summer vacations, the chargesheet was filed in the court of Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Jitendra Mishra at the Patiala House complex.

During their investigations, the police found that Ravi Kapoor, Baljeet Singh and Amit Kumar Shukla abducted Jigeesha in a Hyundai Santro (HR18C3409) from the CPWD Colony around 4 am. She had been talking on her mobile phone. The accused then drove towards Mahipalpur. They asked her for her ATM pin at gunpoint and withdrew Rs 20,000 from an SBI ATM in Mahipalpur. After this, they strangled her and threw her body near Bhadkal Lake.

The police also found that Ravi Kapoor also roamed around the city using fake police uniforms, police badges, stickers on cars and arms, for which he was booked for forgery and under the Arms Act.

In the Soumya Vishwanathan murder case, sources said the Vasant Kunj police would be filing a chargesheet against the five accused — Ravi Kapoor, Baljeet Singh, Amit Shukla, Ajay Sethi and Vijay Kumar — by next week. "Investigations are over in that case too and almost all the documentation has been completed," a source said.

The South district police will also file a supplementary chargesheet against the five accused in the coming months under MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act), which was imposed on the accused later, in April.