India, Aug. 2 -- A lottery shop owner who illegally possesses a country-made pistol was arrested on Thursday in connection with the accidental firing in Dharavi last week that injured a 32-year-old woman. The police said he claimed the bullet went off unintentionally when he was cleaning his pistol.

On July 27, the stray bullet hit Sarvar Banu Shaikh, a resident of 90 Feet Road in Dharavi, while she was talking to her friend outside her house. She did not know what had hit her shoulder, but when she began bleeding profusely, she was taken to the Sion hospital, where an X-ray revealed the presence of a bullet, said a police officer.

The Shahu Nagar police initially registered a case against an unknown person under the Arms Act and for at...