India, March 19 -- NEW DELHI

At around 6.40am, Mohit Kumar woke up to go to a government school in the vicinity where he teaches, when he heard screams and shouts for help from his neighbours. Upon stepping out, he saw Sachin Kashyap on his house's terrace, bruised and with burn injuries on his body and hair, and bleeding from injury spots across his body.

"I sleep in a room on the terrace of my house. That's why I could hear and respond. I asked Sachin to go to the back of the terrace. I climbed an iron ladder on our terrace to reach our water tanks and rescued him from there," he said.

"We took him downstairs and made him sit for a while. We asked him what happened and where the rest were. He said he was on the second floor with his ...