Overview
- The blaze broke out around 2 a.m. in Mahakal Colony, Bairagarh Kalan, and Khajuri Sadak police registered a case against an unidentified accused.
- CCTV shows a masked person approaching from the Mahakal Temple direction carrying a polythene bag suspected to contain a flammable substance, and investigators are trying to trace him.
- Car owner Sunil Kumar Vishwakarma and tenant Neeraj Pal tried to douse the flames as Sunil’s Baleno was charred and neighbor Durgesh Jaiswal’s Brezza sustained front-end and interior damage.
- The arson follows a week of vandalism and assaults across Bhopal that included a cafe attack in Misrod, vehicle damage in Rajbhoj and Viceroy colonies, assaults at an EV showroom, and 11 vehicles vandalised in Gautam Nagar after alleged parking extortion.
- Police Commissioner Harinarayanachari Mishra said accused linked to the reported cases have been arrested, with absconding suspects to be caught soon, and Sunil reported his daughter is receiving hospital care after her condition worsened.