Rejected Lover, Blamed For Indore Inferno That Killed 7, Arrested
NDTV
The early morning blaze at the two-storied building in Indore had killed seven tenants,
The main accused in the building fire at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, in which seven people died, has been arrested. The police said the man was Shubham Dixit, 27, also known as Sanjay, who started the fire as a revenge on a woman who spurned him. The woman was a resident of the building. She and her mother were safely evacuated during yesterday's inferno.
Sanjay had lent some money to the woman too, the police said. But after her wedding was arranged elsewhere, he started troubling her. He demanded that she return the money and they fought regularly, the police said.
"In the CCTV footage retrieved from the building's parking lot, Sanjay was seen entering at 2.55 am on Saturday and pouring something on the woman's scooter," said Sampat Upadhyay, a senior police officer in Indore.
"The retrieved footage showed a big flash of fire which spread to other vehicles parked there and snowballed into the killer blaze that claimed seven lives," he said, adding that the man was also seen trying to tamper with the CCTV cameras installed at the spot.
