Srinagar: Police on Saturday said that it has started investigation into bullet injury to a woman last night in Darganie Gund area of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
In a statement here, a police spokesperson said that Shakeela Banu, 36, wife of Ghulam Nabi Lone, a resident of Darganie Gund (Tral) sustained bullet injuries during night hours even as her husband and in-laws concealed the incident and shifted her to a nearby hospital in Aripal area wherefrom she was referred to Sub District Hospital Tral.
As per the police statement, doctors were informed about Shakeela suffering an “abdominal pain/heart problem”.
It was only at Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital, where she was later referred, that the doctors diagnosed a bullet injury to Shakeela, the police statement added.
Later, a team of police from Police Post Aripal reached to the house of the injured woman and during search of her house an empty bullet cartridge was recovered, police said.
A case FIR No. 25/2021 under relevant sections of law and has been registered and investigation taken up, it said adding further evidences are being gathered into the incident.
