Kanpur: Dad shoots teen twice in the head

KANPUR: In a suspected case of honour killing, a retired IAF personnel shot dead his 17-year-old daughter in Etawah late Tuesday night for having an affair with a local youth. He was arrested on Wednesday after the victim's maternal uncle Sunil Kumar filed an FIR at Friends Colony police station. Police said the accused, Udayveer Yadav, a resident of Sainik Colony, pumped two bullets into his daughter Soni's head.
"Prima facie, it appears that Yadav was angry with his daughter, a student of class XII, for having an affair with a youth despite his objections," the police said . "The accused confessed that he killed his daughter Soni for honour. He had shot her twice from a close range," said ASP (Etawah) Ram Yash.