A man accidentally shot dead his 7-year-old daughter on Wednesday night while he was cocking his pistol in northwest Delhi’s Model Town.
The man, identified as Deepak, then buried the child’s body at a crematorium, PTI reported.
The police arrested the girl’s father and found that he was involved in two cases, including that of an attempt to murder and did not have a licence for the pistol.
During interrogation, he told the investigators that a bullet got accidentally discharged from the pistol and hit his daughter’s head.
Deepak, who works at a courier company, said that he concealed the body and buried it at a cremation ground and informed his wife and mother that the girl had died accidentally, a police officer said, PTI reported.
On Wednesday, after police got information, they excavated the body from the crematorium and sent it to Babu Jagjeevan Ram Hospital for post-mortem, police said.
A case under section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and 25 arms act was registered at Model Town Police station and further investigation is underway, the police said.
(With inputs from PTI)