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Charge sheet filed against alleged killers of Soumya Vishwanathan

Delhi police have filed a supplementary charge sheet before a court here in a murder case of a taxi driver involving alleged killers of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha.

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Delhi police have filed a supplementary charge sheet before a court here in a murder case of a taxi driver involving alleged killers of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha.

The chargesheet, filed before additional chief Metropolitan magistrate Kiran Bansal, said Mohammed Nadeem, who was working as a driver with a Noida-based call centre, was killed last year by Ravi Kapoor, also a key accused in Soumya murder case.

It was alleged that co-accused Mohd Arif, a resident of old Delhi, had purchased stolen Tavera car from Kapoor, Ajay Sethi and Ajay Kumar, who had killed the victim on January eight, last year and took away the vehicle. The victim was found dead in a Vasant Kunj locality near the office of Airport Authority of India here.

Arif has been charged under various provisions of IPC dealing with conspiracy and purchasing stolen goods. Earlier, the police had filed a chargesheet against Kapoor, Ajay Sethi and  Ajay Kumar under harsher penal provisions, relating to murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and destruction of evidence.

The murder case remained unsolved till Ravi Kapoor and others were arrested in connection with killings of Soumya and Ghosh.

During custodial interrogation, the accused confessed to their complicity in the instant case, the chargesheet said.

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