Shooters held, could be linked to Pandya murder

Sources said the four witnesses are the Law Garden watchman, a snack-stall vendor, an employee at an ice-cream parlor near the scene of crime and a sweeper.

The accounts of the eyewitnesses matched on two fronts — the killer’s description and the direction he took after the killing.According to them, the killer was a tall, slim youth aged between 25 and 30.

Dressed in an ash-coloured trouser and green shirt, he reportedly walked away to Panchwati cross-roads after the shooting.

The snack-stall vendor said he did not notice the man after that but the man manning the ice-cream parlour and the sweeper told the police that the man fled on a two-wheeler waiting by the roadside ahead. The watchman failed to see the killer escape as he ran into Law Garden on hearing the gunshots.

Police Commissioner K R Kaushik admitted that the hands which pumped the bullets into Pandya seemed ‘‘to be those of a professional.’’