Overview
- Vineet, 31, and his wife Renu, 29, died of suffocation after a blaze at their grocery shop in Tikri Kalan, with doctors at Oscar Hospital declaring them dead on arrival.
- An initial police inquiry points to a suspected short circuit at the counter that ignited plastic packets and rapidly intensified the fire, according to officials.
- Investigators said the couple lowered the shutter in panic and were unable to reopen it as smoke filled the shop, with reports of electric current passing through the shutter hindering escape.
- Crime and forensic teams collected evidence, a case has been registered, the bodies are preserved for post-mortem, and the landlord is being questioned as the exact cause remains under determination.
- Relatives said the children first raised the alarm; the family is demanding a thorough probe into how the shutter became live and has sought government assistance for the two boys.