PUNE: A 48-year-old woman suffered a bullet injury in her thigh in an accidental firing on Tuesday night after her builder son's licensed revolver fell on the floor of their house on Dehu Road when he was searching for a T-shirt in a cupboard.
She is being treated at a private hospital and her condition is said to be out of danger, the police said. The Dehu Road police have booked the woman's 26-year-old son for an offence under Section 338 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code.
Citing preliminary investigation, sub-inspector Vaibhav Patil of the Dehu Road police told TOI, "Her son had kept the revolver, which did not have a safety catch (a mechanism used to help prevent accidental discharge of a firearm) in a cupboard."
Patil said that on Tuesday night, the woman's son was about to go out of town for some work and he was searching for a particular T-shirt. When he did not find it in the cupboard, the man had called his mother to help him search for it. "His mother and sister came to his bedroom and stood near the cupboard," Patil said.
He added that while searching for the T-shirt, the man pulled out a shirt from the cupboard. "The revolver, which was kept near it, fell on the floor and went off accidentally. The bullet pierced through the cupboard's plywood door and hit the woman's left thigh as she was standing nearby."
