Industrial equipment worth over Rs1.5 cr were gutted in a fire that broke out in an office-cum-godown at Sashtrinagar Block No 3 under Kadma police station area in the wee hours of Tuesday.
The office-cum-godown belonged to Suman Enterprises owned by Suman Singh, who is a resident of Adityapur.
According to information, an electrical short-circuit triggered the fire at the office-cum-godown housed at Pandey Building, leading the building owner Daya Shankar Pandey to inform the fire-brigade. But, by the time the first fire-tender arrived at the spot, the fire had engulfed the entire godown. Three fire-tenders took an hour to douse the flame.
Officer-in-charge, Kadma police station, Shankar Thakur confirmed that the fire was triggered by short-circuits and spread across the office-cum-godown of Suman Enterprises, which was a supplier of industrial goods to Tata Steel and Tata Motors.