Gurugram PG shooting: Accused bought pistol for ₹11,000 to kill woman, self

Accused went to Dilshadpur Teji Bazar, purchased countrymade pistol from Virender Yadav, 4 live cartridges for Rs11,000, returned to Gurugram on Diwali night.

Published on: Oct 25, 2025, 06:50:06 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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The 31-year-old accused held for shooting at a woman in her paying guest accommodation in Udyog Vihar on Thursday told police that he bought the countrymade pistol for ₹11,000 from his native village in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur with the motive to kill her.

The accused said that he had planned to first kill the woman and then himself, but panicked at the last moment and tried to escape, police said. (HT photo)

Further, Vipin Kumar said during interrogation that he had planned to first kill the woman and then himself, but panicked at the last moment and tried to escape, police said.

Kumar shot at Shivangi Tiwari, 30, inside her PG on Thursday allegedly because Tiwari refused his proposal for marriage. They reside in the same locality in Dundahera and have known each other since the last two years.

“After she rejected the marriage proposal a fortnight ago, Kumar started pressuring her. Tiwari stopped talking to him and also blocked his number a few days ago,” a police officer part of the investigation said.

He said he felt humiliated and infuriated so he planned to kill her and then end his life if she didn’t accept his proposal, police said.

Kumar then went to Dilshadpur Teji Bazar in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, purchased a countrymade pistol from a suspect Virender Yadav and four live cartridges for ₹11,000 and returned to Gurugram on Diwali night.

Failing to find an opportunity to enter her PG, he sneaked inside on Thursday morning and shot at her when she refused to talk to him.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, said Kumar was taken to a three-day police custody for interrogation after being produced before a court on Friday. “Attempts are on to nab the suspect who supplied him the illegal weapon,” he added.

Tiwari is from Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh and works in a garment export firm in Udyog Vihar while Kumar works as a chauffeur in a private firm.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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