Dead guard’s son alleges negligence

Jai Bhagwan Sharma, a security guard who had diligently worked the night shift for the past three years, was caught in the blaze that engulfed a central Delhi high-rise and died.

Jai Bhagwan Sharma, a security guard who had diligently worked the night shift for the past three years, was caught in the blaze that engulfed a central Delhi high-rise and died.

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Vipin, the Burari resident’s son, saw the 57-year-old’s gutted workplace on TV and soon realised that the ordeal that his father was faced with.

“They told me my father was injured and recuperating at the RML Hospital. Sometime later, the doctors told me he was dead. My father died because of negligence,” a dismayed Vipin, who works in the advertising department of a magazine, said.