MCOCA charges against accused?
After invoking Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) charges against Ravi Kapoor, the prime accused in the Soumya Vishwanathan murder case, a city court on Monday is likely to slap the stringent MCOCA charges against the four other co-accused in the case.
The prosecution has already argued its case before the Saket district court special judge, R. Kiran Nath, against four accused Amit Shukla, Baljeet Singh Mallik, Ajay Kumar and Ajay Sethi.
As the court has already slapped MCOCA charges against Ravi, so we are pleading for the same to be invoked against the other four, it said.
The investigating officer has filed supplementary chargesheet in the case against four accused under Sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention to commit a crime) of the IPC, the prosecution said.
Opposing the argument of the prosecution, Amit Kumar, the lawyer for accused Ravi, Amit, Baljeet and Ajay, said, “The reason behind invoking MCOCA against the four accused is simply to complicate the case, as they are falsely implicated and the police is totally clueless as to who are the accused in the case. To invoke MCOCA in this particular case is totally baseless and illogical. By slapping the charges against the four accused, the police is trying to cover-up its failure.”
The prosecution claimed, Kapoor, along with Mallik, Amit Shukla and Ajay Kumar, had allegedly tailed Soumya, a TV journalist, and allegedly shot at her on the intervening night of September 29-30, 2008, when she was driving to her Vasant Kunj home.
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