The only clue was bullet marks in two Oshiwara flats that were two floors apart, then how did the police nail actorKamaal R Khan (KRK) over the firing at an Andheri housing society over a week ago?
The much-needed help came from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based GPS and sound tracking tools, the Times Of India reported.
On January 18, 2026, residents at the Nalanda Cooperative Housing Society in Lokhandwala, Andheri, reported bullet marks in two apartments — one on the second floor and one on the fourth, but no one was injured. Khan was arrested on Saturday, after he admitted during questioning that the firingwas done with his licensed 7.65mm Mauser gun, said police.
The lead
Two bullets were found lodged in a cupboard and a wall inside the flats of
screenwriter Neeraj Mishra and model Prateek Baid in Nalanda building on January 18, about 300m from Khan’s bungalow.
No clues
The CCTVs did not capture anybody entering or exiting the building close to the time of firing
The guards did not hear any gunfire.
How AI helped police
Artificial intelligence (AI) played a key role in helping the Mumbai Police crack the KRK firing case by enabling investigators to digitally reconstruct the shooting and trace bullet trajectories when traditional methods gave few leads.
Police used AI-based forensic analysis tools to recreate the shooting scene virtually. Using environmental data such as GPS locations of impact points and spatial relationships into AI models, they built a digital reconstruction of how the bullets traveled from the origin to where they struck the building.
The AI tools helped investigators simulate and map the bullet paths, determining plausible directions, angles, and distances that bullets could have traveled given wind and terrain, and therefore narrowing down possible firing points. This was especially important because conventional evidence like CCTV was unhelpful.
The AI models, using trajectory data and spatial context, strongly indicated that the shots originated from the direction of KRK’s bungalow, about 300 m away from the impacted apartments. This linkage gave cops a strong investigative lead.
An eyewitness reported having heard firing in Khan’s bungalow on January 18. Police then used AI to see if the two cases could be linked. “The FSL team confirmed that the make of the firearm used matched Khan’s pistol,” an Oshiwara police officer told TOI.
Khan allegedly told police that the firearm got stuck while he was checking it and that it accidentally fired into the mangroves.
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