Delhi: Minor Fire Breaks Out At Uphaar Cinema, Shut Since 1997 Blaze. No Injuries

No injuries have, however, been reported in the fire, which affected the balcony and a floor of the theatre.

Uphaar Cinema (File Image/Getty)

New Delhi: A minor fire broke out at the Uphaar Cinema Hall located in Green Park area of the national capital on Sunday morning.

No injuries have, however, been reported in the fire, which affected the balcony and a floor of the theatre.

Delhi Fire Service Director Atul Garg said that a call about the blaze was received at 4:46 a.m. and added nine fire tenders were rushed to the spot, PTI reported.

Garg said the seats, furniture, and rubbish in the cinema hall had caught fire.

He added that the blaze was controlled at around 7.20 a.m.

Uphaar Cinema had witnessed a massive fire incident earlier on June 13, 1997, in which 59 people were killed and over 100 others were injured.

The cinema hall was shut in 1997 after the major fire broke out with nearly about 150 moviegoers trapped inside.

Real estate barons Gopal Ansal and Sushil Ansal, owners of the theatre, were found guilty of causing death by negligence.

The Delhi High Court had earlier in February this year rejected the plea of the real estate barons for suspension of their seven-year jail term in the Uphaar Cinema evidence tampering case.

Earlier last year, the real estate barons and former court staff Dinesh Chand Sharma and two others — P P Batra and Anoop Singh Karayat — were awarded a seven-year jail term by a trial court and the sessions court had refused to suspend the sentence and release them on bail.