Man charred to death as banquet hall catches fire in Noida

A 25-year-old man was charred to death after a two-storeyed banquet hall allegedly caught fire in Sector 74, Noida early Wednesday morning, the police said.

Visuals from the site of the blaze. (Sunil Ghosh/ HT Photo)

The deceased has been identified as Parvindar, who goes by a single name and is a native of Kasampur Kheri village in Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, the police said, adding that he was working as an electrician at a banquet hall and stayed on the premises.

“On Wednesday around 3am, the police control room was sent an alert that a banquet hall had caught fire in Sector 74. On getting information, a team of police rushed to the spot, and the fire department was immediately alerted,” Noida deputy commissioner of police Ram Badan Singh said.