Small screen actor Kamlesh Pandey shoots self

A 38-year-old small screen actor Kamlesh Pandey, who among other serials has played role of an inspector in Hindi serial Crime Patrol allegedly shot himself dead over a domestic issue here, police said today.

"Pandey pumped a bullet in his chest at his relative Anjani Chaturvedi's place in Sanjeevani Nagar Colony yesterday," area inspector Sanjay Bhalawi said.

"Pandey came to Chaturvedi's house in an inebriated condition and opposed the proposed marriage of his niece as he was having some reservation against the boy with whom the girl is to tie the knot," the inspector said.

Amid a heated debate over the issue in the family, Pandey who was carrying a firearm first fired into the air and then shot himself, Bhalawi added.

He was rushed to a hospital where the doctor pronounced him brought dead, the inspector said.

According to sources close to the family, the deceased had brought up his niece and was upset over her proposed marriage as he had some reservation over the boy, whom she is going to enter into the wedlock.

Besides Crime Patrol, Pandey has acted in serials Kaala Teeka, Yeh hai Mohabbatein and Tashan-e-Ishq.