In the immediate aftermath of the fire, Mumbai Police registered a case under charges of culpable Homicide not amounting to murder against the owners as well as the manager(s) of 1 Above, one of the restaurants gutted in the massive fire.

Police say the two managers arrested today - Kevin Bawa and Lisbon Lopez - had the responsibility of rescuing patrons in case of emergencies at the restaurant. The cops say the two managers did not discharge their duty and so have been arrested.

This is the first arrest in the Mumbai Kamala Mills fire case and comes even as controversy rages over which restaurant was responsible for last week's fire.

Just yesterday, the owners of 1 Above, which has been named by Mumbai Police in its FIR, wrote to PM Narendra Modi alleging that Mojo's Bistro - another restaurant in Kamla Mills - was responsible for the fire.

"We are innocent and we have done nothing and want you to investigate the matter thoroughly and arrest the real wrongdoers i.e. Mojo's Bistro," the owners - Kripesh Sanghavi, Jigar Sanghavi and Abhijeet Mankar - wrote.

The trio requested the the case be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation "for independent and unbiased investigation" and alleged that the owners of Mojo's Bistro were "controlling the press, the media etc. and [were] trying to portray that the fire has started at 1 Above which is factually incorrect."

At least 14 people died , most of them women, and around a dozen more were injured after a massive fire broke out in Mumbai's Lower Parel suburb on December 29, 2017.

The fire, sparked just after midnight Thursday, was brought under control only by 6:30 Friday and after 12 Mumbai Fire Brigade tenders were rushed to the spot.

The fire broke out in a restaurant in Kamala Mills, a commercial complex in Lower Parel that houses offices and restaurants, during a birthday party celebration. All of the deaths were due to suffocation and not because of fire-related injuries.

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Kamala Mills fire: Mumbai Police arrests managers of 1 Above, where 14 people died in massive blaze

Two managers of the 1 Above restaurant have been arrested over last week's deadly fire at Mumbai's Kamala Mills compound. 14 people had died in the blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight Thursday.