Underage driver was guilty in DHA accident case: Police report

Underage driver was guilty in DHA accident case: Police report

An interim challan (investigation report) has been filed against the teenage driver Afnan Shafqat and four others in the case of road accident in DHA Phase 7, Lahore, last November that had claimed lives of six members of a family.

Underage 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 has laid out that the teenage suspect and his friends first harassed women passengers in the vehicle before hitting their car.

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Afnan’s father, Shafqat, a property dealer, had been accused of illegally letting his underage son drive the car.

The report also stated that a request had been sent to the concerned authorities 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 the accident.

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

The judge also summoned other suspects through notices.

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