Retd jawan booked as bullet from his revolver misfires, injures teen son

“Shirke has retired from the Army and presently works arsenic information unit with a backstage entity successful Pune. He has a licence for a revolver which helium had placed successful a container successful a cupboard successful the house. At the clip of the incident, the lad opened the cupboard to instrumentality retired immoderate apparel erstwhile the container fell onto the floor. Due to the impact, 1 circular was misfired, an archetypal probe suggests. The lad has sustained a slug wounded to his calf. He was taken to a infirmary and is receiving treatment,” an serviceman from Sahakar Nagar constabulary presumption said.

The serviceman said, “At the clip of the incident, Shirke’s woman and younger lad were besides home. We person booked him for negligent handling of the firearm which amounts to endangering the beingness oregon idiosyncratic information of others nether conception 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Further probe is on.”