A 14-year-old daughter of a senior rail ministry official in Delhi shot and killed her mother and teenage older brother while napping inside a bungalow below the boundaries of the Gautampalli police station. in Lucknow on Saturday afternoon. police officers said.
After killing the two, the minor, who was in poor mental health, also tried to harm herself by cutting her wrists with a razor, Lucknow Police Commissioner (CP) Sujeet Pandey said.
At the time of the incident, the officer was in Delhi, where he is stationed. The girl has been admitted to the hospital, the police commissioner said.
Police said the girl, who is a trained marksman and prolific gun user, used a 22-caliber rifle in the crime. The Director General of Police (DGP), Hitesh Chandra Awasthi, visited the scene.
Pandey said the girl fired three bullets: one hit a mirror and two others killed her mother and brother. She said the girl wrote the words “disqualified mirror” on the bathroom mirror.
This act reflected the mental instability of the girl and that she required immediate medical assistance to recover, he added.
He also said that the girl was questioned before her maternal grandparents and she confessed to having committed the crime. The rifle used in the crime was recovered based on her revelation, Pandey said.
The bullet-riddled bodies of the victims were found lying on a bed inside their room, he added. The girl herself alerted her maternal relatives and domestic workers about the incident.
The police commissioner said that Bajpai was a senior official in the Indian Rail Traffic Services at Northern Railway and had held a high-level position in Lucknow in the past. He was currently an executive director in the railway ministry and mainly stayed in Delhi while his family resided in Lucknow, Pandey added.
Even on Saturday, he was in Delhi and arrived in Lucknow late at night after being informed about the incident.
Pandey said police were first informed around 3.45pm. Relatives of the victims were present at the home when police arrived, he said. Two of the victims’ domestic workers had confirmed that the girl’s mother and brother were alive in the morning and met them then.
“We have called in a team of forensic experts and a squad of dogs to examine the site and further investigations are underway,” the commissioner added.
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