soumya viswanathan television journalist was shot dead
New Delhi: A 26-year-old television journalist was shot dead in the heart of the Capital early on Tuesday morning.
Soumya Viswanathan, an employee of TV Today Network’s English news channel Headlines Today, was reportedly driving from her Jhandewalan office to her Vasant Kunj residence at 0330 hrs (IST) when the incident occurred.
Doctors who conducted the postmortem say one bullet hit her in the head. One bullet was also reportedly recovered from the tyre of her car.
Soumya last spoke with her family just five minutes before her death, police say.
The motive for the killing has not yet been established and police have registered a case of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.