Fire at ED headquarters in Lok Nayak Bhavan

A fire broke on Saturday evening in the Enforcement Directorate headquarter located on the sixth-floor of Lok Nayak Bhawan budilding in Khan market, Delhi.

The Delhi fire services received a call around 5 pm. Eight fire tenders were rushed to contain it and within half an hour, the fire came under control.

No file was damaged, however, one room of ED was gutted in the blaze.

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The cause of the fire is not known yet.

The firefighters broke many windowpanes for smoke to escape. The building is secured by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The building also houses offices of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, some departments of home affairs and the Revenue Department.