Malviya Nagar fire: Court sends hotel owner to 4 days' police custody

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A country   extracurricular  the Post-mortem and  Embalming Wing astatine  AIIMS, successful  New Delhi connected  Thursday (June 4, 2026).

A country extracurricular the Post-mortem and Embalming Wing astatine AIIMS, successful New Delhi connected Thursday (June 4, 2026). | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

A Delhi tribunal connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) sent edifice proprietor Lavkesh Bajaj to 4 days' constabulary custody successful transportation with a blaze that erupted astatine a edifice successful the Malviya Nagar country successful Delhi, leaving 21 radical dormant and dozens injured.

Judicial Magistrate Bhanu Pratap Singh allowed the Delhi Police's plea seeking the accused's custodial interrogation for 4 days.

Police person registered a lawsuit nether sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 326(g) (offence of mischief by fire), 324(5) (wrongful harm of property), 125(a) (negligence enactment that endangers quality beingness and safety), 125(b) (grievous wounded by negligence) and 287 (negligence behaviour with respect to fire) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

Many of the victims of the occurrence that broke retired successful Flourish Stay B&B connected Wednesday (June 3) greeting were overseas nationals staying astatine the edifice portion attending to relatives undergoing attraction astatine adjacent hospitals. The origin of the occurrence is yet to beryllium ascertained, officials said.

Published - June 04, 2026 04:51 p.m. IST

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