Madurai practice hearth: 5 UP residents held for unauthorized use of cooking fuel cylinder | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: Two days after a hearth brought on by the unauthorized use of a cooking fuel cylinder inside a practice compartment at Madurai railway station in Tamil Nadu resulted within the deaths of 9 individuals, 5 residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur had been arrested on Monday.
The arrested people have been recognized as Shubham Kashyap (19), Narendra Kumar (61), Hardik Sahani (24), Deepak Kumar (23), and Satya Prakash (45).
The Madurai Authorities Railway Police (GRP), liable for the arrests, have charged them beneath IPC Part 304 B (an act finished with data more likely to trigger demise) and IPC Part 285 (Negligent conduct with respect to fireside or flamable matter). Following the arrests, the Madurai police knowledgeable the Uttar Pradesh (UP) authorities in regards to the developments.
An official from the UP authorities, concerned in coordination with the Madurai police, knowledgeable TOI that the 5 arrested people had been staff on the Sitapur Bhasin Tour and Travels firm.
A complete of 63 people – 55 passengers and eight assistants – had been on board the personal coach that had departed from Lucknow on August 17. They had been on a 13-day pilgrimage with plans to go to the famend Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai and proceed to Rameswaram earlier than returning to UP.
Nevertheless, on August 26, some passengers resorted to utilizing a bootleg cooking fuel cylinder within the coach.
The ensuing flames quickly engulfed the compartment, inciting panic and chaos among the many occupants. Subsequently, firefighters arrived, extinguished the flames, and rescued the passengers, resulting in the lack of 9 lives.