Konica Laik was an Indian national level rifle shooter. She was the state champion (Jharkhand) in 10 meter air rifle shooting. On 15 December 2021, he committed suicide in his hostel in Kolkata.
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Konika Laik was born in 1994 (age 26 years at the time of death) in Anugrah Nagar, Dhanbad, Jharkhand. She did her schooling from Sri Sri Lakshmi Narayan Trust Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Dhanbad, Jharkhand. After this he studied Master of Commerce from Raja Shiv Prasad (RSP) College, Jharia, Dhanbad, Jharkhand. During her college days, she joined NCC and from there she developed interest in rifle shooting.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 6″
Weight (Approx): 50 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
His father Parth Pratim Laik works in a private company. His mother Bina Laik is an Anganwadi worker. He had two elder sisters and one younger sister.
Konika Leyak with her mother
Husband
According to her mother, she was engaged to a man and was going to get married in February 2022.
livelihood
She started her career as a rifle shooter when she was in college. After this he participated in various district level shooting competitions. She was the Jharkhand state champion in 10 meter air rifle shooting, and won various state level rifle shooting competitions in 2015, 2016 and 2017. He also qualified to participate in national level shooting competitions in Pune in 2016 and Kerala in 2017. , However, she could not win the competitions. In 2021, he started shooting training at Jaideep Karmakar Shooting Academy in Kolkata.
Konica Leyak practicing at the shooting range
Death
On 15 December 2021, she committed suicide in the hostel room of Mukti Neer Women’s Hostel on Bireshwar Chatterjee Street in Howrah district of West Bengal. Reportedly, she committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan in her room with a scarf tied around her neck. During investigation the local police said,
Leyak allegedly hanged himself after his roommates left for work. The dead body has been sent for post-mortem. His family members have come from Jharkhand.”
The local police has recovered a suicide note from the incident site. Some lines of the suicide note were as follows,
I want to quit my job because I couldn’t fulfill my parents’ dreams and I am a failure.”
On hearing the news of his demise, his coach Joydeep Karmakar said,
Leyak suffered a setback in October when he was disqualified from the National Championships at the GV Mavalankar Pre-National event on charges of target tampering. Leyak is the fourth Indian shooter to die by suicide in four months. Since September, three shooters from Punjab have shot themselves with their own weapons. This is certainly a bad time for the shooting sports fraternity of the country. Perhaps psychologists can shed more light on this. I came to know about Laik when I read in the newspapers that Sood was touched by his troubles and got him a new rifle. We contacted him and asked him to come for training. We reduced his training fees by 50%. When we took him on board his skills were quite raw.
His mother held him for three days before her death. His mother said that he is very happy and has no problems. When his father was asked about the incident he said,
I didn’t know why he would have taken such a drastic step. The local police has started investigation. They are checking his cell phone details. When I last spoke to her on Tuesday night, she seemed absolutely fine. I hope the police find something.”
Facts/General Knowledge
- Konika had received one gold medal at the district level and three gold medals at the state level.
- She lost national level shooting competitions in 2016 and 2017 because she did not have an advanced rifle. After this he requested the Sports Authority and various NGOs to help him. He requested for an upgraded rifle while tagging Indian actor Sonu Sood in one of his tweets. After reading the tweet, Sonu Sood Foundation came forward to help him and Sonu Sood gifted him a German rifle worth Rs 50 thousand. 2.5 lakh. Talking about this during an interview, he said,
I can’t have my own rifle as it costs around ₹3 lakh. I had to depend on my coach Rifle or my friend. I had arranged ₹80,000 from my friends and took a loan of ₹1 lakh for the rifle and fortunately, Sonu Sood Foundation arranged the remaining funds for the rifle and I have already placed the order. The German made rifle will reach me in two and a half months.
Konika Lakey holds her rifle given by Sonu Sood
- He also tweeted a thank you message for Sonu Sood. His tweet reads,
Sir, my rifle is here. There is a wave of happiness in my family and the entire village is blessing you.”
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