Fire Mishap at hotelier’s house: CCTV hard disk sent to forensic lab

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate police seems to be groping in dark about possible reasons behind the ‘fire mishap’ in which five including four family members of city based hotelier were killed on August 3.

With mystery still shrouding the deaths of four family members of owner of Pal Heights Hotel Satpal Singh and their domestic help, a team of the forensic experts conducted fresh investigation at the spot here on Tuesday.

With several questions including whether it was a case of accidental fire or was a conspiracy still unanswered, senior officials have sent the hard disk that was earlier seized from the house for forensic examination.

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The move is expected to throw more light on the incident with a hope to retrieve footage of the CCTV cameras as the cops suspect some tampering with the settings in date of the electronic device.

“We have sent the hard disk to retrieve data and only after we get detailed reports from several agencies including fire a clear picture will emerge,” said DCP Satyabrat Bhoi.

Pal Heights owner Satpal Singh’s younger son Gaganpal Singh (39), his daughter-in-law Bhavna (38), granddaughter Suhavi (12), grandson Ruveer (4)and a 12-year-old girl identified as Tanu Das, who worked as a domestic help in their house were killed in the fire mishap.

Gaganpal and Bhavna were charred to death while the three children died due to suffocation.

Three rooms on the second floor of the three-storey palatial building located on Cuttack Road were gutted in the fire. The couple was sleeping in one room while their two children along with the domestic help Tanu were sleeping in an adjacent room.