Officials from the N M Joshi Marg police station arrested Pathak, the son of retired director general of police and former Pune police commissioner K K Pathak, the police said.
Police have booked the owners of Mojo s Bistro for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with last month s massive fire in Kamala Mills compound, a day after a probe revealed that the blaze started from the high-end pub.
Kamala Mills fire: Petition seeks CBI probe into Mumbai pub tragedy
Kamala Mills fire: Petition seeks CBI probe into Mumbai pub tragedy
The Mumbai Police On Monday Arrested Two Managers Of The 1 Above Pub, But The Main Accused - The Pub s Owners - Are Still At Large. PTI | Updated on: 02 Jan 2018, 08:06:58 AM
Mumbai:
An 18-year-old student on Monday approached the Bombay High Court, seeking a CBI investigation into the December 29 fire tragedy at an upscale pub at Kamala
Mills compound in central Mumbai in which 14 people died.
Garv Sud, a city resident studying in the United Kingdom, also urged the court that the culpable homicide charge under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code be pressed against the owners of Kamala Mills too.
The opposition parties are against the proposed online meeting of BMC s standing committee.
MUMBAI: Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Samajwadi party leaders in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC have objected to the Shiv Sena-led standing committee s decision to hold its weekly meeting online via Zoom platform.
The opposition parties said that while the government is allowing 25 people to attend weddings, the meeting should also be allowed offline by following Covid-appropriate norms as the standing committee has only 26 members across party lines.
Samajwadi party leader Rai Shaikh alleged that Sena and civic administration want to conduct the meeting online so as to evade tough questions from the opposition members pertaining to huge purchases being made in the name of Covid-19, the recent Bhandup blaze which killed nine people and also the reinstatement of engineers who were dismissed following the Kamala Mills restaurant blaze.
Kamala Mills fire (File photo)
MUMBAI: Amid the controversy over the reinstatement of suspended police officer Sachin Waze, it has emerged that the BMC last year reinstated two engineers who were indicted in the 2017 Kamala Mills fire enquiry and were ordered to be removed from municipal service.
The reinstatement was approved by the BMC in May 2020 citing shortage of staff to fight the Covid-19 pandemic – the same reason cited for Waze’s reinstatement – and they were taken back later last year.
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To take back two engineers indicted in the Kamla Mills fire probe and who were subsequently ordered to be dismissed as they were charged with negligence, dereliction of duty and connivance with malafide intention now reeks of mala fide intent. The BMC must scrap their reinstatement and ensure that such tainted officials are kept out.