{"id":18035,"date":"2026-06-07T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/malviya-nagar-hotel-fire-arrested-cook-taken-to-scene-for-reconstruction-and-questioning-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:55:16","slug":"malviya-nagar-hotel-fire-arrested-cook-taken-to-scene-for-reconstruction-and-questioning-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/malviya-nagar-hotel-fire-arrested-cook-taken-to-scene-for-reconstruction-and-questioning-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Malviya Nagar hotel fire: Arrested cook taken to scene for reconstruction and questioning | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131565149,imgsize-50416,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/keshav-negi-cook-of-the-hotel-where-the-fire-broke-out.jpg\" alt=\"Malviya Nagar hotel fire: Arrested cook taken to scene for reconstruction and questioning\" title=\"Keshav Negi, cook of the hotel where the fire broke out.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Keshav Negi, cook of the hotel where the fire broke out.\">Keshav Negi, cook of the hotel where the fire broke out.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi police brought the arrested hotel cook Keshav Negi to the the Malviya Nagar fire incident site on Sunday as part of the ongoing investigation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>Negi was employed at Flourish Stays B&amp;B, where a deadly fire broke out on June 3, killing 21 people, including 13 foreign nationals.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Police officials conducted the site visit, and continued to reconstruct the sequence of events surrounding the tragedy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Further details are awaited.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Earlier on Saturday, officials said that the Delhi Police had arrested the hotel cook in the Malaviya Nagar fire incident.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The police said the investigation has revealed that the cook&#8217;s negligence led to the fire. The police have also detained several other individuals in relation to the fire.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>During the investigation, authorities allegedly found multiple safety violations and serious deficiencies in the building&#8217;s fire safety infrastructure.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Meanwhile, the Saket court on Saturday remanded Negi to two days of police custody. He was produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Bhanu Pratap Singh after his arrest by the Delhi Police.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Lovkesh Bajaj, owner of the hotel, has been in police custody in connection with the fire tragedy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>While seeking Negi&#8217;s custodial remand, the Delhi police said that the custody was required to investigate the case. The police also said that the fire broke out due to the leakage of cooking gas.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>(With inputs from ANI)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/malviya-nagar-hotel-fire-arrested-cook-taken-to-scene-for-reconstruction-and-questioning\/articleshow\/131565079.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keshav Negi, cook of the hotel where the fire broke out. NEW DELHI: The Delhi police brought the arrested hotel cook Keshav Negi to the the Malviya Nagar fire incident site on Sunday as part of the ongoing investigation.Negi was employed at Flourish Stays B&amp;B, where a deadly fire broke out on June 3, killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}