India, June 5 -- "My sons didn't allow me to see her, even for the last time. They said I would not be able to bear the pain," said Santosh Bansal. Her daughter, Tarjani Aggarwal, was among eight members of the family that died in the fire at an illegal bed-and-breakfast in south Delhi's Hauz Rani on June 3.

Police identified the victims as Vivek Aggarwal (45); wife Tarjani (43); their daughters Jivisha (20) and Varya (18). Vivek's mother Premlata, 71; uncle Ashok; aunt Kamla Goyal and her husband, Jhaveri Lal Goyal, who had come from Rajasthan's Ajmer, were also killed.

They had all come to meet Vivek's 77-year-old father, Radhe Shyam Aggarwal, who was critically ill and, doctors at Max Hospital, Saket, across the road, had told them, ...