Keeping in view the stigma the jhuggi dwellers, suffer from opposition parties felt that the Yamuna Pushta blaze was an act of sabotage. The police in Delhi, however, rules out sabotage although the one-man committee set up by the government to inquire into the fire is yet to submit its report to the government. The residents allege that there is a calculated move give a clean chit to the party allegedly hostile to the Yamuna Pushta slum dwellers.

Meanwhile, an attempt is being made to lower the death toll in the Yamuna Pushta jhuggi fire. The Delhi government has announced a one-time grant of Rs. 50,000 to the next of kin of 16 persons killed in the blaze. How did the Delhi government arrived at the death toll of 16 only? Official sources on the day of the catastrophe claimed that 28 people were killed in the fire.

The NGOs and voluntary organisation have been doing most of the relief work among the fire victims in the Yamuna Pushta jhuggi. Official agencies are still to come up with best of their efforts to aid the hapless victims.