The Delhi Police today arrested what they called a gang of four men for the alleged murder of BPO manager Jigisha Ghosh and television news producer Soumya Vishwanathan.

The men — three of them detained on Monday — are main accused Ravi Kapoor, Amit Kumar Shukla, Baljeet Malik and Vijay Kumar. The police are on the hunt for the fifth accused, Ajay Kumar.

Said Commissioner of Police Y S Dadwal: “The murders of both Jigisha Ghosh and Soumya Vishwanathan have been solved with the arrest of these men. Ajay Kumar is still on the run.”

The police said 28-year-old Ghosh, an operations manager with Hewitt Associates in Noida, was smothered to death by Ravi Kapoor in the early hours of March 18 after she was dropped off by the office car at her CPWD housing colony near the PVR Priya complex.

Also in her twenties, Soumya Vishwanathan, who worked in Headlines Today, was shot dead in the same area and by the same group on the morning of September 30, 2008, police said. Both women were returning home after the night shift.

Asked what led the police to conclude that both had been killed by the same group, Dadwal said: “The accused have confessed to killing them both. Moreover, we have recovered the pistol that killed Soumya. Cartridges have been found too and all evidence will be sent to the forensic department.” He said that the bullet that hit Soumya’s head was fired from this pistol.

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