Overview
- Investigators say the blaze began the night of June 12–13 after a masked 17-year-old allegedly set a parked scooter on fire to pressure a resident over an unpaid loan.
- Police arrested three adults named in the probe — Sarita, Niranjan and Rajkumar — and added charges to the FIR including criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.
- Officers say CCTV showed the minor entering and leaving the building shortly before the fire and forensic work traced the petrol used back to Sarita’s scooter.
- The fire spread rapidly through the ground-floor parking and stairwells, killing four members of the same family and leaving others injured and hospitalised.
- The case now involves parallel adult prosecutions and juvenile procedures, scrutiny of prior records for some accused, and family calls for murder charges.