Magistrate to probe Jan 9 Sahibabad factory fire

A magisterial enquiry has been ordered into the January 9 fire incident at an incense stick manufacturing unit in Sahibabad that claimed live of a welding technician, district information officer Surendra Sharma said.
Sharma further said that City Magistrate Brahm Dev Singh will conduct the investigation into the incident in which the 25-year-old Mohammad Sarfraz, a resident of Bhajanpura in North East Delhi was killed inside the factory in site-4 industrial area of Sahibabad.
Any person conversant with the facts regarding fire incident can appear before the city magistrate at district collectorate on any working day up to January 29 and depose before him or can file his written submission, Sharma added.

A major fire had broke out at an incense stick manufacturing unit in Sahibabad on January 9 around 4 PM when Sarfraz was carrying out welding work on the basement of the building.
Fire personnel had suspected that welding sparks caused the fire, in which Sarfraz was charred to death.
Properties, raw material and finished goods worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed in the blaze, he said.