The Delhi Police on Friday evening arrested the co-owner of an illegal factory, which had collapsed under the impact of a blast in west Delhi’s Sudarshan Park on Thursday. While the other owner Ankit Gupta was injured in blast and is still undergoing treatment in hospital.
Seven people were killed while eight others were injured when a portion of the factory manufacturing ceiling fans collapsed following an explosion its compressor on Thursday evening.
“Sumit Gupta, a partner in the factory and also a resident of Rohtak in Haryana, was arrested on Friday evening, The other owner, Ankit Gupta, who had also sustained injuries in the incident has been undergoing treatment,” said the senior police official.
The tragic death of seven people in Sudarshan Park in Moti Nagar of West Delhi on Thursday due to gas compressor blast is a grim reminder that civic agencies don’t learn lessons from past tragedies as they wait for another to happen and then time tested game of “passing the buck” begins.
And this is not one-off incident as many areas where illegal factories are operating in residential areas are ticking bombs.
These lives could have been saved had the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) authorities acted on several complaints lodged with them, said sources, adding that eight others sustained grave injuries after a ceiling fan parts manufacturing unit running illegally in a two-storey building in Delhi’s Moti Nagar area collapsed following an explosion in the gas compressor on Thursday evening.