Shimla, June 16 -- The Shimla Police claimed a major breakthrough in the sensational daylight murder of school administrator Manisha Mittal, arresting two alleged shooters from Haryana within 39 hours of the crime and recovering the two pistols allegedly used in the killing.

The accused were arrested on Monday.

However, even as investigators hailed the swift arrests, questions continued to be raised over whether earlier warnings by the victim regarding threats to her life received adequate attention.

Mittal, 41, originally from Rewari in Haryana and associated with Saraswati Paradise International Public School in Shimla's Housing Board Colony, was shot dead on Saturday evening in a brazen attack that sent shockwaves across the hill st...