14-day remand to the building's owner-manager in the Delhi fire incident

(PTI) New Delhi, Ta. December 9, 2019, Monday

Delhi court yesterday granted 14 days police remand to the owner and manager of a four-storeyed building, located in an illegal factory in north Delhi's congested grain market area, where the fire broke out.

Metropolitan Magistrate Manojkumar has given these men, Rehan and Furkan, a 14-day remand stating that police are being held in custody for 14 days and that an inquiry is required.

Police have arrested two persons and filed a case against them under section 304 (culpable homicide) and section 285 (negligence of unlawful conduct) of Indian Penal Code. The case is assigned to the crime branch of the police. Delhi government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the tragedy and submitted its report within seven days.

The Delhi Police's Crime Branch used three D-Scan technology to find out how the incident happened on Monday in the investigation of the incident in the grain market. The fire killed 43 people and burned them.

A team from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory also visited the site and collected some specimens from a four-story building surrounded by several illegal factories. The building found boxes of lively cardboard, plastic sheets and racquins.

Meanwhile, a fire broke out in the same building again today. At 7:50 this morning he received a call and two fire tenders were dispatched and the fire was extinguished.