Moving scenes at mortuary

New Delhi, December 9

Relatives sobbed outside the mortuary of the Maulana Azad Medical College here waiting for the bodies of their loved ones as police investigation into the Anaj Mandi fire gathered momentum on Monday.

A court sent the property owner, Rehan, and manager of the building, Furkan to 14-day police custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Manoj Kumar accepted the police’s plea seeking their custodial interrogation.

At the site of Sunday’s blaze, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police collected evidence from the building using 3D laser scan technology in order to reconstruct the incident of fire for investigation.

A team from the Forensic Science Laboratory also visited the site and collected samples from the four-storey building that didn’t have fire safety clearance but housed a number of illegal manufacturing units and had stored flammable material such as cardboard boxes, plastic sheets and rexine.

This is the second time that the Delhi Police are using the 3D laser scan technology for investigation. The police had used the same technology to probe the massive fire in February in Karol Bagh’s Hotel Arpit Palace that killed 17 persons.

There was chaos outside the mortuary at the hospital where the autopsies of those killed in the incident were performed, as family members waited to be handed over the bodies of their loved ones. — PTI