Shot 4 times, Radhika cremated amid grief

Taunted for living off her income: Father

- 

Former state-level tennis player Radhika Yadav was cremated on Friday evening, a day after her father allegedly shot her dead at point blank range, bringing the curtains down on a life cut short cruelly and leaving behind questions aplenty.

Deepak Yadav, 49, who confessed to the crime and told police he was taunted for living off her income from a tennis academy, was produced in court on Friday and remanded to one-day police custody.

The 25-year-old received four bullets, three in the back and one in the shoulder, according to the postmortem report by a board of three doctors, said police. That done, her body was handed over to the family and taken for last rites to the family's village in Wazirabad close by.

There was stunned silence and many tears too as the young woman was cremated, said a villager. About 150 people, including her grieving family,

Attended the funeral with her brother Dheeraj lighting the pyre.

"There were many questions about the murder. Everyone was surprised how Deepak could have killed his daughter, the one he loved the most," said one of the mourners.

What could have led the father to pump bullets into his daughter's back while she was cooking in their home in upscale Sushant Lok in Gurugram? Was it the tennis academy she ran? Was it a music video she made last year? Was it wounded pride? Or was it something else entirely? The speculation swirled as people took in the scant details of the shock murder of the clearly successful woman set to go places.

Deepak Yadav confessed he shot Radhika because he was often mocked for living off her income, police sources said.