Vishwanathan, an employee of a prominent English news channel, was shot dead in the early hours of September 30, 2008, on Nelson Mandela Marg in south Delhi as she was returning home from work. The police said that the motive behind the crime was robbery.
Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan was killed by three men after a high speed car chase in 2008, and the case has stirred up again after a Delhi court announced its verdict.