BATHINDA, Feb. 21 -- Three weeks after a fire broke out at the Bathinda municipal corporation (MC) office, an investigation suggests that it was a case of sabotage.

A first information report (FIR) was lodged at the Kotwali police station on the complaint of MC's controller Lakhveer Singh on Thursday night.

A case under Section 326 (F) (mischief by causing fire) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered against unidentified persons.

According to the officials, privy to the matter, pleading anonymity, said scores of files related to the accounts, audit, and works wings of the urban local body were damaged in the fire.

A fire had broken out in the store room, which was located on the third floor, on the evening of January 30....