India, July 10 -- The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked NGO Kutumb to file a separate petition seeking a court-monitored investigation into the July 4 fire at Vishal Mega Mart in Karol Bagh, which claimed two lives.

The court noted that the NGO had raised the issue through an application in an already pending matter concerning the death of three students in a flooded coaching centre basement at Old Rajendra Nagar last year. A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Anish Dayal suggested the petitioner to withdraw the current petition.

The court observed that the fire incident and the earlier tragedy involved distinct causes of action-flooding versus fire-and could not be pursued together in a single proceeding.

"It will be dif...