Calcutta/Ghatal, Dec. 6: Told the love of his life would not marry him, Amaresh Kundu went about collecting information on how to fire a gun.

Amaresh was informed over phone on Thursday night by his mother that she is looking for another match for him as Saswati Pal had called to say she would not marry him.

The young man then spent the next two days picking up tips on guns.

“All through Friday and Saturday, Amaresh kept asking us various questions about operating a revolver,” said a police official at the Tollygunge station. Amaresh works in the mess of the thana.

Amaresh’s mother Sunima said in Ghatal today that her son “has gone mad when I told him over phone on Thursday night that we are fixing his marriage with someone else as Saswati did not want to marry him.”

“Saswati telephoned me between 8pm and 9pm on Thursday night to tell me to arrange my son’s marriage elsewhere. I was surprised at her sudden change of mind. I told her ‘you insisted on marrying my son despite my assertion that your well-off parents would not accept this marriage’,” Sunima said.

The phone then got disconnected, she added.

Saswati’s younger sister Sangita, a Class XII student, said she was aware of the affair.