Soumya murder: Witness saw car go out of control

FIRST AT SITE: The witness says he was the one who flagged down other cars to stop to help the victim

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New Delhi: Almost a week on and still no leads are available to enable a breakthrough in the Soumya Viswanathan murder case.

But there is now a second witness who is being questioned by the police.

The eyewitness identified as Shri Bhagwan told the police that the first witness, Anil, who had seen Soumya's car crash against the road divider, had flagged him down and urged him to call the police.

However he claimed that he had not seen or heard anything and stopped only because Anil had desperately waved at him.

Soumya was shot dead while she was driving back home to Vasant Kunj on Tuesday night.

Now the key eye witness for the case is Anil Singh, who works with the restaurant Punjabi by Nature.

"I was returning after duty. On my way, I cleared the red light and reached the climb. Then I noticed that a car came from behind, from the Munirka side. The car was travelling at great speed. It had a flat. It travelled towards the gate of JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University)," Anil Singh told CNN-IBN.

"I tried stopping passing vehicles. None stopped despite my attempts. Finally, an old cab driver stopped. I told to him that this car had got a flat and had come wobbling down the road. Some more passers by joined us. So, the six or seven of us approached the car. The old man said that since it is a girl inside the car, we cannot touch her. Call the police and they will decide what to do, he said. Then he himself dialled 100 and I had no mobile to do so myself," added Anil Singh.

"I heard no sound, no noise. I saw no one else walking, too. I saw only this car," Singh said.

Soumya Viswanathan, a 26-year-old journalist with an English news channel was returning from work on September 30, when she was allegedly shot dead by her assailant in the early hours.

She was found in her car on Nelson Mandela Marg in New Delhi, some distance away from her home.