Gurgaon: A Gurgaon court on Friday sent a person accused of murder after he shot his 25-year-old daughter, Radhika Yadav, in Gurgaon on one-day police custody. The tragedy that took place on 10 July 2025 at their Sector 57 residence has now revealed a web of family conflicts, providing new evidence that the conflict referred to the career aspirations of Radhika and the negative bias of her father. Moreover, the police investigation looks at a music video that involves Radhika and her desire to seek foreign opportunities as possible areas that are being considered as contributory to the murder.
In the WhatsApp chats between Radhika and her investigators, the former said she had shared with her coach that she wanted to move out of India to find a more free life. I desire to live my life. It has too many rules, and I want to escape my family. She is quoted as saying that she would prefer to go to Dubai or Australia but not to China, where there are too few food options available. What these messages suggest is that Radhika, a budding tennis player who shifted to coaching following an injury to her shoulder, was feeling caged and wanted to achieve new opportunities in a foreign land as an influencer in social media inspired by a Gurgaon-based YouTuber by the name of Elvish Yadav.
The main reason used seems to be deeply rooted in an ancient dispute over a tennis school owned by Radhika in Sector 57. The police spokesperson Sandeep Kumar revealed that Deepak Yadav, 49, was quite jealous of the financial independence of his daughter, on which villagers in their native Wazirabad made fun of him. On 10 July 2025 a hot word over the academy led to Deepak shooting five times with his licensed .32 bore revolver. Radhika was in the kitchen preparing food when she was shot in the back with three bullets, with immediate consequences of her death.
Police have also raised a music video, Karwaan, released in 2024 under the label LLF Records, which cast Radhika in a lead position together with artist INAAM and is illustrated as a possible source of contention. According to investigative sources, Deepak disliked the video and asked Radhika to delete it on her social media because he regarded her increased presence on the internet as a family disgrace. Though this angle is also being considered by the officers, they have not been able to directly connect the video with the murder. Police have made it clear that honour murder is not a possible motive, and they are investigating the tussle between the tennis academy, father and daughter, instead.
The case was brought to the surface when Radhika’s uncle, Kuldeep Yadav, living on the ground floor of the two-storey house belonging to the family, registered a First Information Report (FIR). He claimed to have heard some loud bang at around 10.30 a.m. on 10 July 2025 and found Radhika in a pool of blood, and the revolver was still in the drawing room. Kuldeep and his son rushed her to Asia Maringo, where she was pronounced dead. Manju Yadav, the mother of Radhika, present at home at the time of the incident, has even failed to provide a clear explanation with her justification that she was resting because of fever and thought that it could be a blast in the pressure cooker.
The murder weapon and the DVR at the residence have been seized by the police, and they are now trying to locate the extra ammunition kept at the property at Deepak in Rewari. On Friday, the court, although asked to extend the remand by two days, allowed only one day to carry out further questioning. The sports fraternity is still in a state of shock; Manoj Bhardwaj, who used to coach Radhika, described her as a focused, disciplined and very talented girl. The episode highlights the fact that family demands and social pressures, as well as individual aspirations of success, could have been significant factors that led to such a tragic action.