Jeweller shoots family, tries to kill self

LUCKNOW: A jeweller first shot his wife, two teenaged daughters, mother and aunt and then pumped a bullet into his head as well, at his house in Raja Bazaar locality under Chowk police station of the state capital on Wednesday evening. While his mother and two daughters died, his condition as well as that of his wife and aunt was stated to be critical.They are undergoing treatment at the Trauma Centre.
A resident of Bhawani Singh Shuivalaya road in Raja Bazaar, Chandra Prakash (45) was passing through a phase of acute depression for quite sometime now. Since last couple of months, he often stayed back at home and did not open his ancestral jewellery store situated opposite to Chowk Kotwali, regularly. Eldest among three brothers who lived in a joint family, Chandra Prakash and Munna - the brother younger to him - looked after their ancestral jewellery stores. The youngest of the three brothers - Jai Prakash - owns a photo studio.
While Jai Prakash lives on the ground floor of their parental house in Raja Bazaar in the portion adjacent to the photo studio, Chandra Prakash and Munna occupied the first floor of the building with their respective families.
"Around 7:30 pm on Wednesday, we heard the sounds of gunshots but initially dismissed them as crackers. But then Maasi (Chandra Prakash's aunt Angoori) came down the stairs crying for help with blood gushing out of a wound on her forehead. She yelled "Woh dekho sabko mare de raha hai (Look he is killing everyone)," said Jai Prakash's wife, giving details of the incident to the police.
"Everyone rushed to the first floor, only to find all of them lying in pools of blood," she said adding that she immediately informed Munna who then rushed all the injured to the Trauma Centre with the help of the neighbours.
At the Trauma Centre, doctors attending the victims pronounced Chandra Prakash's mother Kasturi (67), and his two daughters Jyoti (16) and Neha (14) dead upon arrival.