Chandigarh, Aug. 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has said that two accused in Sector-32 paying guest (PG) accommodation fire incident which claimed the lives of three girl students in February 2020, will be tried for offences of death by negligence, not culpable homicide.

The HC bench of justice Virinder Aggarwal, allowed the 2021 petition from PG operator, Nitesh Bansal, who had challenged the trial court order of framing charges against him under Sections 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) that entails jail term of up to 10 years. Now, the HC has ordered that he, alongwith facility owner Gaurav Aneja, be tried under Section 304-A IPC (causing death by a rash or negligent act) that entails jail te...