Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan’s killers not only took a U-turn to make sure she had died but also visited the AIIMS Trauma Centre to find out whether their bullet had left her dead, says the chargesheet filed by the police.

On Monday, the 620-page chargesheet was submitted before Metropolitan Magistrate Munish Markan. The court issued production warrants against the accused for June 25.

Vishwanathan, 26, a journalist with Headlines Today news channel, was returning home after the night shift on September 30 last year, when she was shot dead. Her body was found in her car on Nelson Mandela Marg, a little way off her Vasant Kunj home.The chargesheet claims though robbery was the motive behind the attack, the assailants decided against taking any of Vishwanathan’s belongings after her car crashed against the road divider.

As per the chargesheet, prime accused Ravi Kapoor had pulled the trigger. It names four other accused: Amit Shukla, Ajay Kumar, Baljit Malik and Ajay Sethi. They have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) relating to murder, destruction of evidence, forgery and criminal conspiracy. Sethi has been charged only for destruction of evidence, as he was not with the other accused on the fateful night, the charge-sheet notes.

The chargesheet lists 60 prosecution witnesses and other relevant documents. It says the investigators have collected call records indicting that the accused were near the crime spot on the night of the incident. The police claim the location of their mobile phones before the crime (when they reportedly had dinner and alcohol at a dhaba) and afterwards (when they went to AIIMS) establish their position near the crime spot.

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