Overview

• Police identified the victims as TV actor Veer Sharma and his elder brother Shaurya Sharma.
• The blaze began around 2 am in the drawing room of their fourth-floor flat in the Deepshree building in Kota’s Anantpura area.
• Police suspect an electrical short circuit; an FIR under Section 194 of the BNSS Act has been registered as forensic teams examine the scene.
• Neighbours broke open the door, pulled the unconscious boys out, and rushed them to a hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival from smoke inhalation.
• The drawing room was gutted while other rooms showed burn marks; residents used building extinguishers to control the fire, and the family later donated the children’s eyes.