LAHORE: The prosecution on Tuesday filed an interim challan (investigation report) of a teenage driver and four others in a case of road accident in the Defence House Authority (DHA) last November that had claimed lives of six members of a family.

Besides driver Afnan Shafqat, his father Shafqat Ali and friends, Ali Abdullah, Muhammad Saad and Muhammad Ibrahim, have been declared guilty of multiple offences in the challan.

The police investigation said the teenage suspect and his friends first harassed the women passengers before hitting their car. Shafqat, a property dealer, had been accused of illegally letting his underage son drive the car.

The report said a request had been sent to the authority concerned to conduct an ossification test for determining the age of the main suspect but a positive response was still awaited. It said the age of the suspect, as per the birth certificate, was 17 years and 27 days on the day of occurrence.

Judge Naveed Iqbal directed the police to produce the suspect driver on March 11.

The judge also summoned other suspects through notices.

Rafaqat Ali, the complainant in the FIR, lost his wife Rukhsana Bibi (45), son Husnain (25), daughter-in-law Ayesha (23), son-in-law Sajjad (30), four-month-old grandson Huzaifa, and granddaughter Anaya (4) when a speedy car driven by the suspect hit their vehicle.

Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2024