New Delhi: The Delhi police arrested the son of one of the owners of a firecracker factory in outer Delhi where 17 people were killed in a massive blaze earlier this year, the police said.
A fire had broken out in the storage unit on the ground floor of the two-storey building in Bawana on January 20 and had engulfed the entire structure.
Of the 17 who died during the incident 10 were women. A man and a woman were also injured in the incident.
The crime branch on Monday arrested Manoj Jain’s son Rinku (25) after they found that he was also responsible in the incident. He was produced before a city court that sent him to a judicial custody, the police said.
The police had arrested two co-owners Manoj Jain and Lalit Goyal in connection with the incident and later also arrested Surjeet Goyal and Girish Rathore, their partners in another factory in Bawana.
In another incident on Wednesday, a fire broke out in a commercial building in southeast Delhi’s Taimur Nagar on Wednesday, an officer from the Delhi Fire Service said. No injuries were reported in the incident. A call was received at 2 pm about the blaze and 22 firetenders were rushed to the spot, he said. The fire was doused by 4 pm.
