Bawana fire: Police files chargesheet against factory owner, 6 others

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gagandeep Singh, before whom the police filed the document, took cognisance of the charge sheet and summoned factory owner Manoj Jain, co-owner Lalit Goyal and five others as accused before it on April 4.

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: March 21, 2018 6:41 pm
bawana factory fire, delhi factory, fire, delhi fire dept, plastic unit fire, dsiidc, bawana chamber of commerce, bawana industrial area, delhi factory norms, indian express A fire had broken out in the storage unit on the ground floor of the two-storey building in Bawana area on January 20. (Express File Photo)

Delhi Police on Wednesday filed a charge sheet in a city court against the owner of a firecracker factory in northwest Delhi, where 17 people were killed in a massive blaze earlier this year. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gagandeep Singh, before whom the police filed the document, took cognisance of the charge sheet and summoned factory owner Manoj Jain, co-owner Lalit Goyal and five others as accused before it on April 4.

A fire had broken out in the storage unit on the ground floor of the two-storey building in Bawana area on January 20 and engulfing the entire structure. Of the 17 killed, 10 were women. A man and woman were also injured in the incident.