Radhika Yadav’s 51-year-old father was distressed over the tennis player running her own academy.
Radhika Yadav, a 25-year-old state-level tennis player, was shot dead allegedly by her father at their residence in Gurgaon on Thursday.
The victim, who ran her own tennis academy, was shot three times in the back while she was cooking in the kitchen of their three-storey home in Block-G of Sushant Lok II around 10.30am, according to the police. She died instantly from injuries to her vital organs.
The accused, Deepak Yadav, has been arrested and his licensed revolver seized.
A preliminary probe into the incident revealed that Radhika Yadav’s 51-year-old father was distressed over the tennis player running her own academy.
According to the police, Deepak Yadav was angered by the taunts from villagers and peers in their native Wazirabad. An investigator privy to the case details told Hindustan Times that many allegedly mocked him for living off his daughter’s income from her tennis academy.
“He asked her repeatedly to shut the tennis academy,” said assistant commissioner of police (Sadar) Yashwant Yadav. “But she refused. Arguments had taken place earlier as well. He finally shot her dead over the same dispute.”