the crime. “The BMW occupant was found to be innocent,” he added.

Police sources said according to the circumstances and what those known to Soumya had to say, the possibility of a personal enmity as a motive behind the murder appeared bleak, though they were not ruling out this angle altogether. The police said local criminals and bad elements were under continuous watch. Though no deadline has been set to solve the case, the South district police claimed to have put its best men on the job.

The sources said all forensic reports were likely to be out latest by Monday.

The police are pinning hopes on the forensic details to crack the case.

A journalist with Headlines Today, 25-year-old Soumya was killed on the Nelson Mandela Marg in Vasant Kunj when she was driving back home in the early hours of September 30. The police had initially received a call about an accident and found Soumya’s car smashed against the central verge of the road. A postmortem at AIIMS, however, found a bullet in her right skull. The police had said she was shot from a close range.