An 18-year-old teenager who hails from Uttar Pradesh shot herself after she was scolded by her parents for neglecting her studies. She was initially believed to have been killed in an attack, has now been found to have shot herself with the licensed rifle of her father, as per reports.
The victim named Suman was rushed to the hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead.
The girl’s father, Ram Prakash, initially told the police that she was shot by miscreants on Wednesday but later it was established that she shot herself with her father’s rifle.
SHO, Kotwali Dehat, Rajesh Kumar, said a double-barrel rifle has been confiscated and sent for a forensic examination.
“Initially, we received information that unidentified miscreants shot a girl. We reached the spot and took the girl to the district hospital where she was declared brought dead,” he said.
However, while collecting samples from the scene of the crime no bloodstains were found while the gunshot injury on the girl’s body was found from near the temple which also had black marks.
Kumar said when all the house members were asked to explain the series of events, each member had different explanations.
The body has been sent for autopsy. (IANS)
