A hand tattoo, a wireless set stolen from a policeman, and CCTV footage helped Delhi Police crack the case of the killing of IT professional Jigisha Ghosh and eventually led the investigators to the killers of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, officials said on Wednesday.
Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, and Baljeet Malik, who were arrested for murdering Ghosh in 2009, later confessed to their involvement in Vishwanathan’s murder in 2008. A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted four persons—Kapoor, Shukla, Malik and Ajay Kumar—of an organised crime syndicate for murder and other offences for the killing of Vishwanathan.
Following the confessional statements of the trio, the Delhi Police arrested Ajay Kumar and Ajay Sethi and booked all five for killing Vishwanathan in the wee hours of September 30, 2009, when she was returning home from work.
Detailing the night when Vishwanathan was killed, police said Kapoor drove a Maruti Wagon R car, and Shukla sat next to him. Malik and Kumar occupied the rear seat. All of them were drunk, the police said.
“On September 30, a car zoomed past their vehicle. It was a Maruti Zen, which Soumya was driving back to her home in Vasant Kunj. She was returning from TV Today’s office, then located at Videocon Tower in Karol Bagh,” another officer, O P Thakur, who was among the investigators, said. On seeing a woman driver overtake them and that she was alone, they raised the speed of their vehicle and came closer to her
vehicle.
