KARACHI: Police on Thursday registered a case against a personnel of the Frontier Constabulary posted as a guard at a National Database and Registration Authority office in Nazimabad for allegedly slapping a woman reporter of a private TV channel, who was covering a live programme about problems being faced by people at Nadra offices, officials said.

The video in which the reporter was seen as being slapped by the FC guard had gone viral on social media attracting attention of the authorities to take its notice.

Central SSP Muqadas Hyder told Dawn on Thursday evening that the Gulbahar police had registered a case against the FC personnel on charges of conducting firing into the air and later slapping the reporter, Saima Kanwal of K-21 TV channel.

The senior officer said that the police had approached the authorities of the FC for custody of the FC guard.

SSP Haider revealed that Nadra officials had also submitted an application before the police for lodging a ‘counter FIR’ against the TV channel staff for creating “hindrances in official work”.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2016