The 25-year-old accused, who was a classmate of the man’s daughter, fired one round with the airgun causing injury to the victim’s right eye
Hyderabad: A man allegedly shot at and injured the 57-year-old father of his woman friend with an airgun on Sunday, angry over the latter sending his daughter to the US to “break their friendship”, police said.
The 25-year-old accused, who was a classmate of the man’s daughter, fired one round with the airgun causing injury to the victim’s right eye, they said.
The man in a complaint alleged the youngster was harassing his daughter in the name of love and that he had also quarreled with him recently over the matter.
The accused was also counselled in front of his parents by the woman’s father after the former had threatened of “killing” him after being told not to meet his daughter, police said.