new delhiagra four days after the discovery of the body of 22yearold bca student aayushi in a red trolley bag near raya on national highway 2 it has become clear that her father shot her dead minutes after she had falsely claimed she was pregnant in a bid to pressure her parents into accepting her secret marriage to a youth she knew since her schooldays the postmortem confirmed aayushi wasnt pregnant late on monday the parents nitesh kumar yadav 49 and brajbala 45 performed aayushis last rites in mathura amid police presence yadav told police he was torn with deep regret for killing his daughter and that he committed the crime in a fit of rageyadav and brajbala were aggrieved by their daughters independent style of living and their relations only worsened when aayushi disclosed earlier this month that she had married chhatrapal singh gurjar 24 last year they had been resentful of their daughter choosing to stay away from home for days together little knowing that she had already married the man they were opposed to on caste considerationsaccording to police yadav visited gurjars house earlier this month and ordered the youth to stay away from his daughter aayushi did not like this and on the fateful day while arguing with her parents about her relationship she claimed she had a stomachache probably because of her pregnancy hearing this an enraged yadav took out his licensed revolver and shot aayushi twice in the chest killing her on the spot the parents told police that this news about her pregnancy would leave the family unable to face relatives and friends the postmortem however revealed that the dead woman wasnt pregnant she had claimed as such perhaps to pressure her parents into accepting her marriage to gurjar said mp singh sp city agra though her marriage was solemnised in an arya samaj mandir a year ago and registered in a shahdara court in october this year aayushi wanted her parents to accept it and willingly marry her off to gurjar publicly again said singh talking to toi subinspector harendra kumar chowki prabhari said aayushis parents werent ready to accept the marriage because the youth was a gurjar and they were yadavs the financial status was also a cause of disagreement aayushis family is well off and have seven properties in delhi including the twostoried house where they live in badarpur and others with 12 tenantsaayushi otherwise a good student is believed to have started losing interest in her studies after getting involved with gurjar a resident of rajasthans bharatpur she had known him since the time when his cousin studied with her in kendriya vidyalaya according to relatives the girl had cleared the national eligibility cum entrance test for medical studies but didnt want to study further leaving her parents fuming when she apparently started lying to them and coming home late relations broke downaayushis mother called her ranu and favoured her over her son said grandmother jamvanti who has lived