The Locked Furnace: Why Padlocked Coaching Exits are Repeat Murders: Santa locks the secondary fire door and seals windows with decorative iron grilles to prevent student fee-dodging. Banta invokes the horrors of the 2019 Surat Takshashila fire and 2023 Mukherjee Nagar tragedy to prove why narrow, wire-choked stairwells turn commercial coaching centers into un-ventilated death chambers during electrical short circuits.