Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) H G S Dhaliwal on Thursday said there was sufficient motive behind television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan’s murder and that the police would crack the case soon.

“We are very confident of working out the case. There is sufficient motive behind Soumya’s death,” Dhaliwal told Newsline. He, however, did not disclose if they were working on any new line. The angles they were probing earlier were road rage, attempted robbery and personal enmity. “Dedicated teams of officers from various units of the South district police are continuously working on the case,” the DCP said.

According to the police, the bullet recovered from Soumya’s body would not help much in the investigation as it was fired from a .312 bore country-made pistol, which is easily available with criminals.

On giving clean chit to Mudit Jain, owner of a BMW car — broken parts of which were found at the crime spot — Dhaliwal said: “After picking up all the plastic pieces on the one-km stretch of the Nelson Mandela Marg, the crime scene was reconstructed. Later, we called in experts to show them a rearview mirror and ask which car it might belong to. They identified it as a BMW piece. We did all verifications and carried out a mock drill near the murder spot to check the radical span of the car and its velocity impact, and to see how fast it can drive through the bushes.”

Dhaliwal said they carried out all scientific measures to verify Jain’s involvement in

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