“My best friend Radhika was murdered by her own father. He’d made her life miserable for years with his controlling, constant criticism… they couldn’t stand to see her independent. They shamed her for wearing shorts, for talking to boys, for living life on her own terms,” reads the caption of an Instagram video posted by Himanshika Singh Rajput, who says she had been best friends with Radhika Yadav, the tennis player allegedly shot dead by her father Deepak Yadav.

Rajput adds that she attended Radhika’s cremation. “She was a very kind person, very sweet, innocent. She liked clicking photos and making videos. Even the music video that is making the rounds is a normal one and her father had himself dropped her for the shoot,” she said in the video.