Kamala mills fire: One of Mojo's Bistro pub owners arrested

MUMBAI: One of the owners of Mojo's Bistro pub - Yug Pathak - has been arrested by the police on Saturday in the Kamala mills fire tragedy.

The other owner of the pub is yet to be arrested. 

Earlier today, the Mumbai Police had booked two owners of the pub for culpable homicide. 

The development came a day after authorities announced a reward to whosoever provides information about the whereabouts of three owners of 1Above pub in the Kamala Mills Compound – Kripesh Mansukhlal Sanghvi, Jigar Sanghvi and Abhijeet Mankar. The trio is still absconding. A lookout notice has been issued against them. 

On December 29, a deadly fire in Kamala Mills Compound claimed 14 lives and injured several others. 

Mumbai's fire department in its report said that a lit charcoal used in a hookah at Mojo's Bistro Restaurant caused the blaze, which then spread to '1Above' pub. 

The department further claimed that Mojo's Bistro pub could not produce the required documents required to run a pub.

On Monday, the police arrested two managers '1Above' pub  - Kevin Bawa and Libson Lopez.

An offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under sections 304, 337, 338, 34 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the three '1Above' at the NM Joshi Marg police station following the incident.