<p>A 35-year-old man was killed when he accidentally fired from his own licensed pistol in his house in Lucknow's Sarvodaya Nagar under Indira Nagar police station area.</p>.<p>The deceased Rahul Verma owned a small jewellery store.</p>.<p>Rahul was rushed to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where he was declared brought dead late Saturday.</p>.<p>Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, Prachi Singh said initial probe revealed that Rahul was fiddling with his licensed pistol that he brought in March this year.</p>.<p>His father Devi Singh in a police statement said Rahul was sitting in the front room on the ground floor and was looking at the pistol while fiddling with it when it accidentally fired. As a result a bullet hit Rahul's face.</p>.<p>"We were in the jewellery store while our daughter-in-law Kanchan was feeding the baby upstairs. Hearing the gunshot, she rushed into the room only to find Rahul lying in a pool of blood. We rushed him to the hospital where the doctors declared him dead," he added.</p>.<p>Prachi Singh said a forensic department team was called which took the pistol for ballistic examination and also examined the crime scene.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH's latest videos:</strong></p>
<p>A 35-year-old man was killed when he accidentally fired from his own licensed pistol in his house in Lucknow's Sarvodaya Nagar under Indira Nagar police station area.</p>.<p>The deceased Rahul Verma owned a small jewellery store.</p>.<p>Rahul was rushed to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where he was declared brought dead late Saturday.</p>.<p>Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, Prachi Singh said initial probe revealed that Rahul was fiddling with his licensed pistol that he brought in March this year.</p>.<p>His father Devi Singh in a police statement said Rahul was sitting in the front room on the ground floor and was looking at the pistol while fiddling with it when it accidentally fired. As a result a bullet hit Rahul's face.</p>.<p>"We were in the jewellery store while our daughter-in-law Kanchan was feeding the baby upstairs. Hearing the gunshot, she rushed into the room only to find Rahul lying in a pool of blood. We rushed him to the hospital where the doctors declared him dead," he added.</p>.<p>Prachi Singh said a forensic department team was called which took the pistol for ballistic examination and also examined the crime scene.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH's latest videos:</strong></p>