Radhika Yadav was shot four times by her father Deepak Yadav, an autopsy report confirmed. The medical team who conducted the procedure confirmed that four bullets were recovered from the late tennis player's body.
25-year-old Radhika Yadav was shot dead by her father at the family's double-storey home in the upscale Sushant Lok area of Gurugram on Thursday. Deepak Yadav, 49, later confessed to killing his daughter and was arrested.
According to officials, Deepak confessed that he shot at Radhika because he was often taunted for living off her income. Police, in a statement, claimed that the tennis academy Radhika ran was the bone of contention between the father and the daughter. He was of the opinion that as the head of the family, he was doing financially well and there was no need for his daughter to run an academy, the police claimed.
"Her father was not happy with it," Gurugram police spokesperson Sandeep Singh said, adding that Deepak has disclosed that his objection was to her daughter running the tennis academy, over which there had been altercations between the two.
"On many occasions, he had told her to shut it, but she did not agree. Angered, he shot her," the police spokesperson was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
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Earlier, the police believed that Radhika was struck by three bullets in the back after the accused fired five shots. The victim's uncle had identified the gun recovered from the scene as a licensed .32 bore revolver that Deepak Yadav possessed. While Radhika was found motionless on the kitchen floor, the gun was recovered from the drawing room.
According to the All India Tennis Association (AITA) website, Radhika played tournaments earlier this year in Indore and Kuala Lumpur, but these were in the qualifying events and not the main draw. She was ranked 1999 by the International Tennis Federation.
She achieved the highest All India Tennis Association (AITA) Under-18 Ranking of 75 and AITA women's singles ranking of 35.
AITA official Anil Dhupar expressed grief and shock over the incident.
"It's really sad and unfortunate. She came to Indore to play W35 this year. In her junior days, she was very promising. She always wanted to start an academy to create future players and enquired how to go about it. It's really shocking to know what has happened," he said.