The deceased persons have been identified as Sandeep, Gaurav and Ganesh. The room in which the bodies were found was rented out to Sandeep by a railway official who lived on the first floor in the same building, a police official said.
The incident came to light yesterday when Ganesh's wife, Deepa, reached Sandeep's residence looking for her husband.
"The police have initiated an inquest into the matter. The bodies have been sent for postmortem examination and the initial report suggests that they died of burn injuries," Additional DCP (South) Surender Kumar said.
Sandeep lived in the room with his family. His parents had gone to Jabalpur to visit their daughter there when the incident took place, a police official said.
While Sandeep and Ganesh are natives of Nepal, Gaurav was a native of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. They often used to party and consume alcohol together.
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