The verdict in the nearly ten year old Noida Sector-76 murder case came on Monday (October 13, 2025). Delhi’s CBI court on Monday sentenced two convicts, Shashank Jadaun and Manoj Kumar, to life imprisonment in the murder case of software engineer Ankit Chauhan. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 70,000 on Shashank Jadaun and Rs 50,000 on Manoj Kumar.
Earlier, on September 20, 2025, the court had declared both the accused guilty. On the night of 13 April 2015, Ankit Chauhan, a 27-year-old software engineer working at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), was shot dead.
Victim’s family demands justice from High Court
Ankit was going in his Fortuner car in Sector-76, Noida. Unknown assailants opened fire on him. After the incident, the attackers fled from the spot and the police did not find any concrete clue in the initial investigation. Ankit’s family approached the High Court demanding justice.
After this, Allahabad High Court ordered to hand over the investigation to CBI in 2016. CBI took over the case on June 14, 2016 and started investigation. During the investigation, CBI reached out to Shashank Jadaun and Manoj Kumar on the basis of technical evidence and call records and arrested them on 1 June and 2 June 2017.
Life imprisonment to the accused
CBI filed a charge sheet in the Ghaziabad court on 29 August 2017, in which both were accused of serious charges like murder, attempt to robbery, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. Later, on August 2, 2019, the Supreme Court transferred the hearing of this case from Ghaziabad to New Delhi, so that the case could be heard impartially.
After a long hearing, the court found that both the accused had murdered Ankit Chauhan as part of a conspiracy. While sentencing both of them to life imprisonment, the CBI court said that this was a premeditated incident in which the life of an innocent youth was taken.
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