India, Oct. 25 -- The 31-year-old accused held for shooting at a woman in her paying guest accommodation in Udyog Vihar on Thursday told police that he bought the countrymade pistol for Rs.11,000 from his native village in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur with the motive to kill her.

Further, Vipin Kumar said during interrogation that he had planned to first kill the woman and then himself, but panicked at the last moment and tried to escape, police said.

Kumar shot at Shivangi Tiwari, 30, inside her PG on Thursday allegedly because Tiwari refused his proposal for marriage. They reside in the same locality in Dundahera and have known each other since the last two years.

"After she rejected the marriage proposal a fortnight ago, Kumar started pr...