A couple heading home after visiting a relative faced a nightmare on the way, when the woman was attacked by a pet dog. The woman, Sonali Saldanha, 45, was bitten on the waist, and had to undergo treatment that included nine injections. The police have booked the Andheri resident who owns the dog.

According to Sonali, who works in a Dubai-based shipping firm, her husband, Alfred, and she had come to Mumbai as his cousin had passed away. On April 10, after meeting the cousin's family in Andheri, Sonali and Alfred were walking home, when a German Shepherd ran out of a building and attacked her.