Click to play videoNew Delhi: The murder of Delhi TV journanist Soumya Vishwanathan has taken a political turn with Opposition Leader L K Advani reacting strongly to Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit's comments that the girl was being adventurous driving back from work early in the morning.
"A girl is murdered in the night and they say that was adventurism? It's shocking. It seems that something has radically gone wrong with people in authority that they can make outrageous statements of this kind," Advani said on Saturday.
Sheila Dikshit had on Thursday said that though she regretted the death, it was not good to be "adventurous".
"One should not be adventurous, but I am really very sorry for her family. Investigations are going on. She was travelling in the early hours of the morning, so I think we need to take greater care. She was driving all by herself at 3 o clock in the morning in a city which people believe is not very safe for women after dark," she said.
Sheila Dikshit's comments had sparked an outrage and a host of communities cropped up on the Internet in retaliation to the remark, demanding justice for Soumya.
The 26-year-old television journalist was shot dead in the Capital early on Tuesday morning.
Soumya was an employee of TV Today Network's English news channel, Headlines Today. Prior to joining Headlines Today, Soumya also worked with CNN-IBN.
She had stayed back in office on Monday night to bring you coverage of the blasts in Malegaon and Modasa. The incident occurred when she was driving from her Jhandewalan office to her Vasant Kunj residence at around 0330 hrs (IST). Soumya last spoke to her father at 3:15 am, saying she'll reach home shortly.
Police say she was shot dead while on her way home. Her car was found rammed into the divider on Nelson Mandela road. Her body was still in the driver's seat and there was a bullet in her head.
The police rushed her to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences but doctors declared her dead on arrival. Police have registered a case of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, but the motive for the killing has not yet been established.
There were signs of a struggle in the car and one tyre was punctured from which a bullet was recovered.
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