India, Jan. 6 -- Delhi Police has solved a shooting case, uncovering that the injured man had allegedly fired at himself as part of a conspiracy to falsely implicate his lenders, an official said on Monday.

The police have arrested two men - Prabhas Pandey (53), an auto-rickshaw driver, and his associate Ashish alias Chunnu (28) - and recovered a country-made pistol along with a fired cartridge.

"Pandey had staged the incident to frame people who were demanding repayment of money and opposing his personal relationship," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Bhisham Singh said in a statement.

The officer said that the case came to light in the early hours of December 28 last year, when a PCR call was received at the Mukherjee Nagar ...