Kolkata:
The proprietor and the supervisor of the central Kolkata lodge, the place a devastating fireplace killed 14 individuals, have been arrested on Thursday, police mentioned.
Akash Chawla, the proprietor of Rituraj Lodge, and supervisor Gaurav Kapoor have been taken into custody within the morning, they mentioned.
A suo motu case was registered on the Jorasanko police station underneath numerous sections of the BNS, together with 105 (culpable murder not amounting to homicide), and the West Bengal Hearth Providers Act towards them, they added.
Police mentioned 12 of the 14 our bodies recovered from the lodge have been recognized and their autopsy examinations accomplished.
These our bodies have been handed over to their households, they mentioned, including that efforts have been underway to determine the identities of the remaining two our bodies.
There have been 88 company in 42 rooms of the six-storey funds lodge, positioned in Mechhua within the congested Burrabazar space, when the hearth broke out at 8.10 pm on Tuesday.
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