Jilted Lover Who Caused Indore Building Fire That Killed 7 People Is Finally Arrested
Police have arrested a jilted lover, who had allegedly ignited a fire in a three-storey residential building that left seven dead and nine injured here in Madhya Pradesh, an official said.
Police have arrested a jilted lover, who had allegedly ignited a fire in a three-storey residential building that left seven dead and nine injured in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Sunday.
Upon seeing the police, the accused, Shubham aka Sanjay Dixit (27), tried to flee and in the process fell on the road in Lohamandi area and got injured, Indore¡¯s Vijay Nagar police station in-charge Tehzeeb Qazi told PTI, adding that the man was being questioned.
Madhya Pradesh | Five people charred to death after a fire broke out in a two-storey building in Indore.
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The Fire official says, "The fire might have started through a short circuit. It took us 3 hours to bring the fire under control. pic.twitter.com/FNDeDWgm1x
The accused was nabbed on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday and booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 436 (mischief by fire intending to cause destruction of any building), the police said.
Woman rejected marriage proposal
He had fled after allegedly torching the scooter of a woman residing in the residential building in Vijay Nagar locality on Saturday after she rejected his marriage offer.
A jilted lover, who allegedly caused a fire at a residential building in Indore that left 7 dead & 9 injured, arrested, an official said. The accused torched a woman's scooter residing in the building after she rejected his marriage offer. The fire then engulfed the building
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Dixit, who originally hails from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, was working at a private firm in the city for the last couple of months, the police official said.
Meanwhile, a video surfaced on social media purportedly showing Dixit, bleeding from his hands and legs, lying on a stretcher in a hospital, writhing in pain.
7 die in fire at Indore building, nine rescued, the fire was triggered by short circuit in main electric supply system in the basement 5 people still hospitalized @ndtv @ndtvindia pic.twitter.com/Qtq89HYX95
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Qazi said Dixit was injured when he tried to climb a road divider to evade arrest.
CCTV footage helped nab Dixit
On Saturday morning, Dixit had allegedly torched the woman¡¯s scooter following which the fire from the building¡¯s parking area spread upwards, engulfing the premises, police earlier said.
7 charred to death after fire breaks out in Indore residential building
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¡°Initially, it had appeared that a short-circuit caused the fire. But, after scanning CCTV footage of the houses near the gutted building, police found that a man ignited the blaze by setting fire to a vehicle in the building¡¯s parking area. The flames spread and engulfed the three-storey building,¡± an official said.
The accused had vacated a rented flat in the building six months ago. He wanted to marry the woman who lived in the same building, but she was going to marry another person, the police said.
Dixit and the woman also had a quarrel over Rs 10,000, they had said.
After setting the woman¡¯s vehicle on fire, Dixit fled to his friend¡¯s place in Niranjanpur area and later moved to Lohamandi area, the police said.
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