Aerial firing: Shot fired near TV anchor’s house

"It was unlikely that the bullet came from a person firing from a car passing outside the house", says Police.

LAHORE: The police have registered a case against unidentified men after a television anchor’s car was hit by a bullet while parked in his driveway at his Model Town residence here on Saturday night. Model Town Station House Office (SHO) Muhammad Khan said that according to Muhammad Malick’s complaint, his son was playing outside when he heard a single gun shot, just as a car passed by the house. The case as registered against unidentified men under Sections 337-H2 (negligence endangering human life), 188 (disobeying a public servant’s order) and 427 (mischief causing damage) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, police officials said that the angle at which the bullet penetrated the car suggested that it came directly from above. They said that it was most likely that some people had fired shots into the air a few hundred metres from the property and a stray bullet had landed in Malick’s house. They said that it was unlikely that the bullet came from a person firing from a car passing outside the house.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 12^th, 2012.