Nine Delhi residents were killed on Sunday after a massive fire broke out in a residential building in East Delhi’s Vivek Vihar, triggering panic and a large-scale rescue operation. How did the incident turn into a tragedy was not just the fire, but the building’s construction plan.

Nine people lost their lives and several others suffered injuries after a fire ripped through a four-storied residential building in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar area on Sunday. The fire was reported in the early hours, with cops saying that a PCR call was received at 3:48 am.

The police cases came just days after Sandeep Pathak, once a key strategist for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with six other Rajya Sabha members.