Name: More Uphaars waiting to happen?
Uploaded: 2007-09-05T11:53:19+05:30
Description: Fifty-nine people died in the Uphaar fire tragedy due to a faulty transformer.

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New Delhi: Fifty nine people lost their lives in the fire that broke out at Uphaar Cinema because of a faulty transformer in June 1997 
 
The lives were lost as the Delhi High Court said in 2001, due to the fire safety regulations being ignored had making the theatre into a gas chamber. 
 
So how easy is it to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for a building from the fire department? 
 
CNN-IBN's special investigation team made up a fictitious factory in Gurgaon, and set about trying to get an NOC for it. And it was a lot easier to get the NOC than it should have been. 
 
A fireman, Vinesh Sharma in the Bhimnagar fire station in Gurgaon was asked if he could arrange an NOC. 
 
His reply was simple. He said anything was possible for the right sum. He provided the team with an NOC, with no background checks, not even a verification that the factory existed. 
 
When asked whether the NOC was real or fake and what would he do if it was detected fake. 
 
Unperturbed he just said,” Tell me how much money will I save? I will save a maximum of four or five thousand?” 
 
He was further asked whether the NOC number ever existed. 
 
“Get it checked in entire state of Haryana. Any officer can check this,” was Sharma’s answer. 
 
The rot goes even higher. The CNN-IBN investigators asked Additional Assistant Division Officer (ADO) at the Laxmi Nagar fire station in East Delhi, Rajen Vadhera if he could provide an NOC for a school that had been made up. 
 
All Vadhera was concerned about was how much money he would make if he provided the NOC. 
 
He unknowingly spilled the beans about how many people were involved in the racket. “It goes up. I have to give money to others. There is money involved,” Vadhera said. 
 
Vadhera asked for an advance at first. And after he procured the NOC, and the investigators again. His demand – Rs 15,000 for putting a school at grave risk. 
 
Excerpts of the conversation between the correspondent and the ADO Rajen Vadhera 
 
Correspondent: Sir this is Rs 5,000. 
 
ADO Rajen Vadhera: It's okay. 
 
Correspondent: Take five more. Let’s make it 15 please sir. 
 
ADO Rajen Vadhera: It is okay. It is okay. 
 
Correspondent: Sir please check is once so that there is no confusion. 
 
ADO Rajen Vadhera: It is okay yaar. 
 
Fifty-nine people died in the Uphaar fire and they lost their lives because men like Sharma and Vadhera work in India's fire service taking bribes to give an NOC to fictitious companies.

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