The charred body of a 30-year-old woman identified as Maya was found in a factory gutted in a blaze in the Dayalpur area of New Delhi on Sunday. The police said she was a resident of Gokalpuri, who worked as a labourer in the laptop cell factory in Chandbagh. The police received a call about the fire at a building in the area at 3.15 pm on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said initial investigations and spot inspections have revealed that the fire erupted in the basement of the building
Tirkey said fire tenders took about three hours to bring the fire under control following which, the charred body was found in the bathroom of the basement, as reported by news agency PTI..
Later on, the police said the body was handed over to her family members after a post-mortem.
Tirkey said, "After the crime team visited the spot, a case was registered under sections 285 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter) and 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code and further investigation is in progress," as quoted by PTI.
In a separate incident, a massive fire broke out in a transformer that spread to an adjacent plastic godown in Kolkata’s Topsia on Friday (April 21), news agency ANI reported. According to the report, four fire tenders have been rushed to the spot and many labourers are feared to be trapped. No casualty has been reported.
This comes a day after at least 21 people, including a child, were injured when an LPG cylinder exploded and the leaking gas sparked a fire on the ground floor of a two-storey building on Bichali Ghat Road in southwest Kolkata’s Garden Reach.
According to reports, the fire started in the kitchen when some members of the family were cooking.
According to police, the locality was crowded and the flames spread to a row of shops adjoining the house, leaving several people with burns. Most of the injured were admitted to SSKM Hospital. Two of them are in critical condition, police said.
“Many more were injured than what we have come to know because several with burns fled the spot,” The Telegraph quoted a police officer as saying.
“The condition of some of the injured persons is critical because of the degree of burns they have suffered,” a senior doctor of SSKM Hospital’s Trauma Care Centre said.