BENGALURU, Aug. 7 -- A 40-year-old software engineer was arrested after allegedly firing an air gun from the balcony of his apartment in Anekal taluk early on Thursday, damaging parked vehicles and allegedly aiming at security guards, police said.

The accused, Anurag Tiwari, a native of Lucknow employed with a private information technology company in Whitefield, had been living at Sipani Apartments near Bandapura for the past eight months. No injuries were reported in the incident.

According to the police, Tiwari had consumed alcohol on Wednesday night and was heard shouting while speaking on the phone inside his apartment. Around 2.30 am, he stepped onto the balcony of his third floor flat and began firing pellets from an air gun towa...