Masuda received the injury on December 18 in their residence at Shahjahanpur in the capital.

Doctors at Apollo Hospitals finally allowed police to take her statement after two days of refusal as she was released from the Intensive Care Unit and transferred to a regular bed.

Sub-Inspector Wazed Ali of Motijheel Police Station took Masuda's statement. According to him, Masuda told him that the shooting occurred in the bedroom of their Shahjahanpur residence. "The single bullet" hit her in the stomach while inflicting injuries to her husband Khokon in the hand as well.

Masuda and Khokon went out that night. After the couple returned home and entered their bedroom, Khokon put a pistol on the bed. Masuda asked Khokon to "lock" it. "While Khokon attempted to lock the pistol, a shot was fired by mistake that hit both Khokon and me," Wazed Ali quoted Masuda.

When this correspondent asked Wazed Ali how one bullet could injure two people at the same time, he said he could not ask her further questions to clarify the incident since she looked ill.

However, Wazed said the statement recording is yet to finish and police will quiz her again today.

Abbas and his family primarily denied the shooting, but later gave several contradictory statements regarding the incident.