lucknow panic gripped madiaon police station area when an explosion at a house in aliganj phase ii resulted in a huge fire on the intervening night of august 19 and 20 allegedly at the behest of a man who had a strained relationship with his wife for the past sometime the accused who was arrested by the police from rae bareli the next day has been identified as ranvijay singh alias ranjit a resident of barabanki ranjit also received burn injuries on his hands and face the police said on receiving the information the police and fire tenders rushed to the spot to douse the flames his wife sarika singh on whose complaint ranvijay was arrested was living along with her sister megha singh at the ground floor of the said house on rent fortunately both the sisters were not present in the house when the incident took place both had gone to their native place in lakhimpur khiri coincidently another family that of akhilesh verma which lives on the first floor of the house was also not present in the house the police said and added that verma had a miraculous escape verma ran out of the house no sooner than he heard the noise of explosion the police said the house is owned by brijmohan sharma a resident of bakshi ka talab locality though the accused claimed that explosion took place when he lit the matchstick which resulted in fire police said that circumstances hint towards the fact that a high intensity explosive was used to ascertain the nature of explosive teams of forensic departments from agra and lucknow and bomb disposal squad were pressed into service after a detail examination of the place the teams collected samples said circle officer aliganj anees ahmed ansari and added the report in this regard is still awaited neighbours and eyewitnesses told the police that at around 300 am on the intervening night they woke up hearing a loud explosion what they then saw was that the house was engulfed in fire about the damages in the fire the circle officer said that property including computer two twowheelers and other valuables worth lakhs of rupees were burnt in the fire sarika in her complaint stated before the police that she had married ranvijay however she had estranged relationship with him at the moment and was living in a rented house and was pursuing llb on the intervening night when she and her sister were in khiri ranvijay along with his aides came to her house and set it on fire she alleged in the fir the police said that ranvijay was admitted in a hospital in rae bareli from where he was arrested an application seeking police remand of ranvijay to ascertain the truth would be given before the court of law the circle officer further told toi