Cops have no clue in Nainital shooting case

With three days having passed since a youth shot himself and his fiancée dead, the Nainital police are still stumbling in the dark as to the motive behind the crime. The incident that occurred under Chorgaliya police station area in Nainital district has left both the families and locals stunned.

Pankaj, a native of Dineshpur, Udham Singh Nagar, who was working in Dubai as a technician, after reaching his native place, had gone to his fiancé's house and fired shots at her and then shot himself. Nainital Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Senthil Akdai Krishnaraj said that police are working on several angels and teams have been deployed at Dineshpur, Udham Singh Nagar, to find out the motive.

However, police said right at the present stage of the probe, nothing can be said conclusively. "Things are still murky as far as the motive is concerned," Krishnaraj said.    Chorgaliya police station in-charge AK Verma said that he had visited the girl's residence several times where the crime occurred. 

"I have interacted with the family members and the locals too. Despite such interactions, we are still clueless regarding the motive behind the crime," he said, adding that the teams constituted to probe the case would clear things soon.

Asked whether the speculation of the girl refusing to marry him having triggered Pankaj to go for the crime, he said he was unaware of any such thing. Verma further said that both were friends since their college days. later, they had decided to marry. The engagement was held in December last year and the marriage was slated in February or March. 

According to their family members, they used to talk over mobiles almost daily after the engagement, “However, things got stalled following the sudden death of Monika's grandfather in January. The wedding was postponed till October this year,” he said.