One of the two death row convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case has moved the Delhi high court, challenging his conviction and the sentence awarded to him by the trial court.

Convict Amit Shukla, who along with accused Ravi Kapoor was handed down death penalty, has approached the high court, saying the trial court has awarded him the capital punishment by 'wrongly holding that the case falls in the category of rarest of rare'.

The trial court on July 14 held Kapoor, Shukla and Baljeet Malik guilty on various counts, including the murder of 28-year-old IT executive Jigisha.

The court while sentencing Kapoor and Shukla to death on August 22, had said the girl was killed in a 'cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner' and 'brutally mauled to death'.

While seeking setting aside of his conviction and order on sentence, Shukla through his counsel Amit Kumar said the trial court has committed error by awarding death penalty simply on the basis of biased jail/probation report about his client.

'It has also not been noticed that for the similar offence one of the convict has been sentenced for life imprisonment,' the appeal, which would come up for hearing on September 15, said.

IMAGE: Jigisha Ghosh.