India, March 13 -- The charred body of a 24-year-old man was found inside a house in Basai, Sector 9B, on Friday, where a chemical manufacturing unit allegedly running illegally caught fire on Wednesday evening, police said.

The deceased was identified as Hetram Kewat, a resident of Panna in Madhya Pradesh.

Station house officer (SHO) at Sector-9A police station, Avtar Singh, said neither locals nor the property owner informed the fire department or police about the fire, adding that the fire extinguished itself.

The SHO said that when the factory workers were cleaning the rooms on Friday morning, they found a charred body amid ashes and alerted the police.

Singh said the unit had stored chemicals and was involved in manufacturing toi...