Dad shoots daughter dead for refusing to quit tennis job
The father was angered by neighbors’ criticisms and taunts that he was living off his daughter’s income.
THE father of a Pakistani tennis coach and player shot her dead on Thursday for allegedly losing his pride from the financial support he gets from her earnings, local media reported Friday.
Radhika Yadav, 25 years old and ranked 113th as a doubles tennis player in the International Tennis Federation, died instantly when her father shot her thrice in the back while she was cooking in their home kitchen in Wazirabad village, Gurugram, Haryana State, according to police.
Police investigators were quoted by Hindustan Times as saying that the father, Deepak, was angered by neighbors’ criticisms and taunts that he was living off his daughter’s income from her tennis work at the nearby Ryder’s Sports Academy.
He admitted to investigators that he was suffering depression from the mocking and disapproved of a video that her daughter posted on social media.
New Indian Express reported that the victim works as a coach at Ryder’s Sports Academy located near her residence in Gurugram.
Station House Officer Inspector Vinod Kumar told Indian Express, “He (Deepak) had been upset for a while as he was being taunted by locals over his daughter’s income. He was troubled by their remarks — they would keep saying the house is running on her money, and he is too dependent on that. He had asked her (Radhika) several times earlier to stop working at the academy, but she refused. He could not take it anymore.”
Deepak was arrested and his licensed revolver used in the killing was seized by police.
Meanwhile, Rawalpindi police on Friday said a father shot dead his daughter after she refused to delete her account on popular video-sharing app TikTok.
“The girl’s father had asked her to delete her TikTok account. On refusal, he killed her,” a police spokesperson told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
According to a police report shared with AFP, investigators said the father killed his 16-year-old daughter on Tuesday “for honor.” He was subsequently arrested.
The victim’s family initially tried to “portray the murder as a suicide,” according to police in the city of Rawalpindi, where the attack happened, next to the capital Islamabad.