More than two dozen fire tenders were pressed into service after fire broke out at a paint manufacturing unit in Govindpura industrial area on Friday morning.
The fire took massive shape after oil kept inside the factory of Anand Organic caught fire and gutted raw material worth lakhs of rupees.
SHO of Ashoka Garden police VS Chouhan said that at the time of the incident employees were not present and no one was injured.
The staff told that the fire broke out at the garbage in the premises which spread to the raw material in the factory.
The estimated loss in the fire was not provided by the factory owner and have claimed that the loss would be provided later, he added.
Chouhan said that the breaking of fire is suspicious and it is possible that it has been set by any insider which circumstantial evidences suggest and would be investigated.
Fire tenders suspected that the short circuit resulted into the fire but to ascertain at the moment is not possible and could be revealed after the investigation.
Huge flames were witnessed from far distance and the adjacent factories were evacuated to avert any untoward incident.
The raw materials used in manufacturing paint are highly inflammable which was the reason behind the spreading of fire rapidly in the manufacturing unit.
Anand Organics India Private ltd which manufactures paints and the factory is owned by Prem Chawla.
The fire tenders took around two hours to control and pacify the fire.