THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The report of the forensic said the fire in the Secretariat is not due to short circuit. This was mentioned in the report submitted at the judicial magistrate court in Thiruvananthapuram.

The report was prepared after examining 24 objects in the room where the fire broke out. There is no evidence from any of the samples collected for testing that the fire was caused by short circuit.

The fan and the switch board were gutted in the fire that broke out. But, the sanitizer kept in the room did not catch fire. Not only that many including the fire extinguisher kept in the room was examined.

The report of the expert panel cited short circuit as the reason for the fire. The report of the forensic is just the opposite. The forensic prepared the report as part of police probe.

Meantime, how the fire broke out has not been mentioned. The report was first submitted to the DGP. He in turn handed it over to the investigation team. The investigating team produced the report in the court along with the case diary.