The Delhi Police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with Friday night’s major fire in a shoe factory in Mangolpuri Industrial Area of Delhi that claimed four people and left two others seriously injured, said at least two senior police officers aware of the development.
The caller informed the fire control room that the fire was in a garment factory. The firefighters carried out firefighting and search-and-rescue operations. Police personnel also joined them in the search and rescue. The building comprises a basement, ground floor, and three upper floors, with a partially constructed structure on the terrace. Six people, found unconscious inside, were rescued and taken to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, where four were declared dead; the other two remain under treatment. Searches and cooling operations were continuing. It spread to the upper floors, and the men were trapped by heavy smoke. Police have yet to identify the factory owner.
The blaze was brought under control around 1am on Saturday, with 16 fire tenders used, fire department officials said. Delhi Fire Services (DFS) and police officials said their control rooms received information around 9.30pm on Friday about the fire in a factory in Mangolpuri Industrial Area Phase-1. A total of 16 fire tenders were rushed to the scene. Earlier reporting noted: 4 dead after blaze in factory in Delhi’s Mangolpuri industrial area At least four people died and two were seriously injured after a massive fire broke out in the basement of a three-storey shoe factory in Delhi’s Mangolpuri Industrial Area, phase-I, on Friday night, police and the Delhi Fire Services said. Earlier reporting noted: A call about the fire was received at 9.30pm, and more than 20 fire tenders fought the blaze for over three hours.
The officials said that the Mangolpuri police station has registered a case and is probing the exact cause of the fire. “We have registered a case and are probing the exact sequence of events leading to the fire to fix responsibility and accordingly take legal action,” he said. A senior fire official said the fire was in the basement of the shoe manufacturing factory. Earlier reporting noted: Eyewitnesses said the workers were on the third floor when the fire broke out.
