
Lucknow: A 30-year-old man, identified as Sandeep Maurya, shot himself dead outside the house of a woman he liked in the Raje Sultanpur area of Ambedkarnagar on Sunday. Police said Sandeep posted on Facebook expressing his love for the woman and called up UP 112 before shooting himself dead.
Raje Sultanpur SHO Bechu Singh Yadav said that both the families were against the relationship. The woman too had stopped seeing him.
Dharmendra Maurya, the father of the deceased, said they got to know about his choice only recently. “We conducted counselling sessions, and even asked his friends to counsel him but he was adamant to marry the woman only,” said an inconsolable Dharmendra.
Police said that owing to family pressure the woman had also stopped meeting Sandeep for some time. On Sunday when he reached her residence and she did not step out to meet him despite requests, he lost his mind. “He took out a country-made pistol and shot himself dead,” said SHO Yadav.