The Dindoshi police, investigating a blaze caused by a firecracker at a high-rise in Malad East, allegedly recovered a firecracker box from the spot but destroyed it and didn’t mention it in the panchnama, the victim`s family said. Even after weeks of the incident, the police have yet to register an FIR.

Speaking with mid-day, Prashant Chaudhary said, “The police destroyed the firecracker box which is crucial evidence in the case to avoid registering an FIR after the fire burnt down my entire bedroom and endangered my family.” Chaudhary’s bedroom was burnt down on February 18 after a rocket used during a wedding procession in the neighbouring SRA society landed inside the bedroom balcony of his 8th-floor apartment in the Tower-28 residential building.