From buying clothes and electronics to replacing documents and daily essentials, the financial burden has been steep.

The company is believed to have shut down operations and vacated its offices around July 10, just days before many of the post-dated cheques were scheduled for clearance.

The blaze broke out in the maid’s room of a British family's villa in Bella Casa, Serena, and has apparently been traced back to an internal electrical fault in an AC unit.