Month after bullet injures Nadiad woman, cops still shooting in dark

AHMEDABAD: At around 11am on Aug 26, 74-year-old Nadiad resident Shobhna Talati was on her terrace, taking down laundry from a clothesline when she felt "something like an electric shock" in her left wrist. Soon, there was blood. Talati had been hit by a bullet. Here's where the intrigue thickens. Nearly a month and seizure of 45 licensed weapons later, police remain clueless about who pulled the trigger or where the bullet came from.Three teams - the special operations group (SOG), local crime branch (LCB) and Nadiad town police - are working to unravel the mystery, but the findings so far have been a shot in the dark.
"A bullet has been fired; someone must have shot it, but we don't know who," said Kheda DySP V R Vajpayi. "It was a 7.65mm calibre bullet used in pistols. Nadiad town police have registered a case of attempt to murder and the Arms Act and have sent the bullet for forensic examination," he said, adding that 45 licensed weapons have been confiscated for analysis.
What complicates the puzzle is the fact that there is no shooting range in the vicinity of Talati's house in Deep Bungalows Society in Nadiad's Madhi Chakla locality.
'Bullet was lodged in wrist'
The morning of Aug 26 was like any other for Talati until she felt the "shock" while gathering fresh laundry from the clothesline. "I felt like an electric shock in my left wrist and the wound started to bleed." A neighbour rushed to her help but neither of the two could have imagined it to be a bullet wound. "My help applied turmeric and tied a cloth around it," she said. Talati went to a doctor at a private hospital only the next day when the pain became excruciating. The doctor advised an x-ray, which revealed a lodged bullet. It was successfully extracted surgically.
Inspector D N Chudasma of Kheda SOG said that there is no shooting range near her house and police are still trying to uncover the mystery .