Komal, wife of Manoj Gupta, bleeding profusely was admitted to a private hospital where she is battling for life, City East Superintendent of Police O P Tripathi said.
The woman shot herself in a room of her residence in Sanghi colony from foreign made license pistol of her husband, who found her wife lying in a pool of blood after he broke the door when he returned home, Tripathi said.
In a letter recovered from the residence, Komal stated that she was take the extreme step on her will and neither her family members nor acquaintances should be quizzed, he said.