BAWANA FIRE: COOWNER OF CRACKER UNIT ARRESTED

NEWDELHI: A week after 17 people were killed in a fire that broke in a firecrackers package and storage unit in Bawana, police have arrested the co-owner of the unit.

Lalit Goel had been absconding. His partner and the primary owner of the unit, Manoj Jain was arrested soon after the incident.

A case was registered at the local police station and the crime branch was roped in for the probe.

Goel was arrested on Friday by the local police. He was produced before a city court. His police remand was secured and he was later handed over to the crime branch team.

“Goel is in our custody. We will interrogate him in the case,” said Joy Tirkey, deputy commissioner of police (crime branch).

Meanwhile, the women’s wing of the Delhi Congress on Saturday staged a protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence demanding government jobs for the kin of the Bawana fire victims and also to ensure that female workers in factories are not paid below the minimum wages.

Hundreds of Delhi Congress women’s wing workers, led by party’s city women wing chief Sharmistha Mukherjee, gathered outside Kejriwal’s residence here in the Civil Lines area of north Delhi and raised slogans against him.

Mukherjee said, “We are protesting here to demand justice for the victims of the Bawana fire tragedy and also a government job to their kin.”