Investigation into a recent murder case of a call centre employee in New Delhi helped Delhi Police to crack the September 2008 sensational murder case of a journalist Soumya Viswanathan.
Police on Tuesday claimed that four assailants who have been arrested in the murder of Jigisha Ghose, a Hewitt Associates employee, were also involved in the murder of Soumya Viswanathan.
Police claimed the breakthrough came with the arrest of four accused – Ravi, Baljit, Amit and Ajay—and the weapons recovered from them. A senior police officer said they were investigating the four accused in connection with the murder of Jigisha case, but after finding the similarity between the two cases they started investigating them further, and after some times they confessed to murdering Soumya as well.
A .314 bore country-made pistol that was used to murder Soumya was also recovered from them, police claimed. Soumya was found shot dead in her car on September 30 last year.
About the motive of the two murder cases, a senior police officer said while Jigisha murder was pre-planned and the motive was robbery as her mobile phone, ATM and credit cards were missing, Soumya’s case might have been an attempt to molest.
Police claimed the assailants had used Jigisha’s ATM card for withdrawing Rs. 77,000 from the SBI ATM in Mahipalpur and credit card for buying expensive goggles, wrist watches and shoes from Sarojini Nagar market.
Jigisha was returning home in Delhi in the early hours of March 18 but did not reach home. Found Jigisha missing, her family lodged a complaint with the Vasant Kung police station on March 19 and a day later her body was found in Faridabad, adjacent to Delhi. She was last seen by her family on March 17 when she left for work.
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