Uphaar cinema: The Uphaar Cinema fire

The Uphaar Cinema fire was one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history. [1][2] The fire started on Friday, 13 June 1997 at Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, Delhi during the three o'clock screening of the movie Border. [3] Fifty-nine people were trapped inside and died of asphyxiation (suffocation), while 103 were seriously injured in the resulting stampede. The victims and the families of the deceased later formed The Association of Victims of Uphaar Fire Tragedy (AVUT), [4] which ... NEW DELHI: The legal route taken by Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy and the families of the other Uphaar cinema fire tragedy victims is full of twists and turns. It has been 26 years and the ... Twenty-eight years after the Uphaar cinema fire claimed 59 lives and wounded over 100 others, the trauma centre promised in memory of the victims remains missing. Victims’ families said the ... Nearly three decades after the tragic Uphaar cinema fire snatched 59 lives and scarred over 100 others, families of the victims are still waiting, not just for closure, but for a promise to be kept of building a trauma centre. In 2015, the Supreme Court ordered that Rs 60 crore paid as a penalty by ...