MAJOR FIRE AT JOY ALUKKAS WEDDING CENTRE

                             MAJOR FIRE AT JOY ALUKKAS WEDDING CENTRE

    Major fire at Joy Alukkas Wedding Centre in Kochi. More than a dozen fire tenders were pressed in to service to put out a fire that broke out on the ground floor of Joy Alukkas Wedding Centre on the Marine Drive in the early hours of Sunday 27th March, 2011.
   No one was injured in the fire that was suspected to have been triggered by a short circuit on the ground floor. Properties worth crores of rupees have been damaged in a major fire outbreak in Alukkas showroom, one of the prominent golden Jewellery show room in the city at Marine Drive Sunday 27th March. The fire was noticed by local residents at midnight and informed the police. The fire is said to have spread to all the four floors of the showroom. The fire is believed to have caused substantial damage to textile item in the eight-floor show room.
    Traffic at the northern end of shanmugham Road and western end of Banerjee Road was restricted by the police on Sunday to make easy the fire-fighting operations.
   The accident is unlikely to affect the plans of Joy Alukkas India Limited to go in for a public issue of equity shares, subject to market conditions, said a spokesman for company.

Prof. John Kurakar