Rejected Lover, Blamed For Indore Inferno That Killed 7, Arrested

Sunday, 8 May 2022Newsdesk

The main accused in the building fire at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, in which seven people died, has been arrested. The police said the man was Shubham Dixit, 27, also known as Sanjay, who started the fire as a revenge on a woman who spurned him.

New Delhi, 08 May 2022

As per news report of NDTV, The woman was a resident of the building. She and her mother were safely evacuated during yesterday's inferno. Sanjay had lent some money to the woman too, the police said. But after her wedding was arranged elsewhere, he started troubling her. He demanded that she return the money and they fought regularly, the police said. "In the CCTV footage retrieved from the building's parking lot, Sanjay was seen entering at 2.55 am on Saturday and pouring something on the woman's scooter," said Sampat Upadhyay, a senior police officer in Indore.

Source - NDTV