Surat police has arrested four more persons including two engineers of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in connection with the Takshashila Arcade fire in Sarthana that snuffed out lives of 22 students on May 24. Those arrested were Ravindra Kahar, partner of Takshshila Arcade, PD Munshi and Jayesh Solanki, then executive engineers of Varachha zone and Dipak Naik, deputy Engineer of Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL), Sarthana division.
With this, the total arrests in this case have gone up to nine. Three builders and two fire officers were arrested in the case and all are in judicial custody at present.
Kahar was arrested as he didn’t get the construction done without proper permissions, city police commissioner Satish Sharma told reporters.
Munshi, who was transferred to central zone after the fire, was responsible for approving the building plans. He not only approved the Takshashila Arcade plan but also approved its regularization after payment of impact fee. He allowed the regularization even after the deadline for applications to regularize was over.
Surat fire tragedy: Police arrests 4 more persons including 2 engineers of SMC
