Overview

• The blaze broke out around 2 a.m. in a fourth-floor flat at the Deepshri apartment complex in Kota’s Anantpura area.
• Neighbours forced the door open, pulled the boys out unconscious, and rushed them to a private hospital where they were declared dead on arrival.
• Officials said dense smoke filled the closed flat with the air-conditioner running, and the drawing room was destroyed while other rooms showed burn marks.
• Police reported the children were alone at home, with their mother in Mumbai and their father at a local religious event.
• After the mother arrived, the bodies were handed over and the family donated the boys’ eyes, as police registered an FIR under BNSS Section 194 and continued the investigation.