Girl shoots dead ex-boyfriend, held

ROHTAK: A 17-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly gunning down her ex-boyfriend on February 21 in Sonepat’s Matindu village, police said.

The accused, a Class 12 passout, was angry with deceased Deepak Kumar, 19, as he was pressuring her to marry him.

Deepak’s father Samundar Singh said his son slept alone in the family’s stable every night to take care of the animals.

He said when he went to check on his son on the morning of February 21, he was lying in a pool of blood with gunshot wounds.

Singh said he suspected it to be a case of honour killing as his son was in a relationship with the accused but the girl’s family had fixed her marriage elsewhere.

Based on his complaint, police had booked the father and brothers of the girl for murder.

However, a week later, the police found that Deepak was shot dead by the girl herself and not her family.

Police said they found broken bangle pieces at the murder spot and the minor’s call details confirmed she met Deepak the night he was murdered.

During sustained interrogation, the 17-year-old confessed to the crime. She was arrested and produced before a court that sent her to a juvenile home.

“She told us that her parents had fixed her wedding with someone else but Deepak was forcing her to elope with him. He threatened her that if she did not elope, he would kill her family. The duo indulged in a quarrel a night before her wedding during which she shot him dead,” Kharkhoda police station in charge Virender Singh said.

Police said the minor girl stole her cousin brother’s pistol to commit the crime.