Contractor killed daughter after she refused marriage proposal

LUCKNOW: After a dramatic sequence of events for over 24 hours, the city police, on Sunday, arrested father of 28-year-old Martina Gupta, for allegedly killing her in a fit of anger after she objected to her marriage fixed by her family.

Martina was found dead with five bullet wounds in a room at her residence in Eldeco Udyan-II colony under PGI police area on Saturday. The accused Rakesh Gupta was arrested after a police complaint was lodged by victim’s mother Malti Gupta about her daughter’s murder following which an FIR under IPC section 302 was lodged with PGI police station.

Police said Gupta had shot

COPS ARE NOT RULING OUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF SOME OTHER FAMILY MEMBER IN THE CRIME AND ARE FURTHER PROBING THE CASE

dead his daughter in a fit of rage. The police said Gupta committed the crime with his licensed pistol which has already been seized for forensic examination. The investigators, however, are not ruling out the involvement of some other family member in the crime and further probing the case.

Superintendent of police (SP), North, Anurag Vats said the girl’s father has been arrested after he confessed to his crime during interrogation. He said the accused opened fire at his daughter after her got annoyed over her repetitive refusal to get married.

He said the victim had confrontation with her father over the same issue even in the past. He said the accused so far has not revealed about the involvement of any other member of the family in the crime but further probe is going on.

A source said the victim’s mother mentioned in the complaint that she has arthritis problem and so she usually remains on the ground floor of her threestorey house.

She said she went up on the first floor of the house after listening bullet sounds and spotted her husband coming out of her daughter’s room. She said her daughter was found lying on bed when she entered inside the room and was profusely bleeding. She also mentioned that her husband has problem of high blood pressure and that she had not seen him shooting the girl.

Drawing reference from the registered complaint, a senior police official stated the complainant suspected that her husband, who had high blood pressure problem, killed Martina in a fit of anger. She had also mentioned in the FIR that her husband often used to lose his temper due to blood pressure problem.

Earlier, the family had stated that the girl had committed suicide but could not justify how she shot herself five times.

The incident occurred at around 8am on Saturday but they kept on hiding the matter till the doctors at King George Medical University’s trauma centre sent the body for post-mortem examination at around 2.30pm. Cops at the university’s police outpost had informed the PGI police station about it when they spotted bullet wounds on the girl’s body.