Jilted lover guns down five, kills self

Upset over a failed love affair, an enraged youth on Monday went on a shooting spree gunning down five people, including his lover. Later, he committed suicide.

Ravi, 20, a resident of Masuri village in Ghaziabad, had gone to his cousin Naveen Malik’s house at Bindapur in south-west Delhi on Sunday with two loaded revolvers. He was in love with his sister-in-law’s 17-year-old sister Shilpa. Ravi’s elder brother Narendra, too, was staying with Naveen. Both Narendra and Naveen drove cabs for call centres.

At 10:30 am on Monday, Ravi and his sister-in-law Renu Malik entered into a heated argument on the first floor of the house. Though Ravi was infatuated with Shilpa, his family was against it and had asked him to forget her. He was also unemployed.
“Enraged at being rejected, Ravi took out a gun and shot Renu twice, following which she fell on the floor,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (south west) A K Ojha.

Hearing gunshots, the landlady, Sheila Garg, 53, rushed to the room. Seeing Sheila in front of him, Ravi pumped three bullets on her and fled. Sheila, too, fell in a pool of blood beside Renu. Sheila Garg’s son Dinesh, a property dealer, who has an office near his house, rushed in after hearing the gunshots and saw a man running out of his house with firearms in his hands, police said.

Dinesh tried to catch Ravi. But Ravi threatened to shoot Dinesh and fled in a car outside the house. Dinesh then rushed both Renu and his mother to a nearby hospital where doctors declared them brought dead.

After fleeing from there in a Santro car, Ravi drove 40 km to Ghaziabad’s Bhojpur city, where he killed Shilpa, younger sister of Renu, at her house at 1:30 pm. He then found Shilpa’s father Harinder, who was also not allowing him to marry Shilpa. He took out the gun and fired at Harinder. After both were dead, he then shot himself on the temple and ended his life.

“A case of murder has been registered and we have sent a team to collect all the details from Ghaziabad,” said Ojha.

During preliminary investigation, police found that both Ravi’s cousin and elder brother were not at home at Bindapur when the incident happened. But late on Monday night police found Naveen’s body in the Bindapur house as well.

“At the time of the incident, the domestic help was in the house but she was so scared that she could not tell us anything,” a senior police officer said.