Overview

• The blaze broke out around 2 a.m. in the drawing room of a fourth-floor flat at the Deepshri/Deepshree building in Kota’s Anantpura area.
• The boys were alone at home; their father was at a bhajan event and their mother was in Mumbai, according to police.
• Neighbours forced open the door, pulled the children out and rushed them to a private hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.
• The drawing room was gutted and other rooms showed burn marks, with initial findings pointing to dense smoke and suffocation as the cause of death.
• An FIR has been registered under Section 194 of the BNSS Act, forensic teams are examining the scene, and the family has donated the children’s eyes.