Delhi: Police said that the child has been shot in the left shoulder. (Representative)
New Delhi:
A three-year-old boy was injured in a gunshot accidentally fired by his aunt in North Delhi’s Anand Parbat area. The police gave this information on Tuesday.
The incident happened on Saturday and the police got information from the hospital around 1 am where the boy was brought for treatment, he said.
Police said the boy sustained a bullet injury on his left shoulder.
The 47-year-old woman, the great-grandmother of the boy, tried to mislead the police by fabricating a false narrative around the incident. Police said he did so to save his daughter-in-law, the boy’s aunt, who had accidentally pointed a pistol at the boy.
She told the police that on Friday, she along with the boy had gone to meet her sister in Shastri Nagar. A police officer said that the boy was feeling uneasy there and decided to return home in Than Singh Nagar.
She said that around 12 am when she was going towards her residence with the child, two men on a motorcycle came and opened fire on her and fled on the Sarai Rohilla flyover. The officer said the boy was shot and she took him to the hospital.
However, when the police checked the CCTV footage of the area where the so-called accident took place, the women did not appear in any of the video recordings. Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said this aroused suspicion and his sister, who lives in Shastri Nagar, was questioned, who said the woman had not gone to meet him.
The DCP said that during interrogation he confessed that his 19-year-old daughter-in-law had fired a pistol at his house, but she shot the child.
Police said he also disclosed that he had made up the story to falsely implicate a family member of a jailed man in a case registered on the complaint of his daughter-in-law.
He said it was also revealed that the pistol was brought by his son and efforts were on to trace them.
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