India, July 11 -- A 51-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly shooting dead his 25-year-old daughter, a promising state-level tennis player who ran her own tennis academy, at their residence in Gurugram's Sector-57, police said.

The accused, Deepak Yadav, was arrested from the chilling crime scene, and his licensed revolver seized.

The victim, Radhika Yadav, was shot three times in the back while she was cooking in the kitchen of their three-storey home in Block-G of Sushant Lok II around 10.30am, police said, adding that she died instantly from injuries to her vital organs.

Investigators, meanwhile, said they are probing several possible motives for the father to kill his daughter, all of which point to a toxic cocktail o...