Kamala Mills Fire: 1Above Pub Owners Arrested While Trying to Flee Mumbai

Police said two of the three owners - Kripesh and Jigar Sanghvi were nabbed while they were trying to flee the city. The third, Abhijeet Mankar, is still absconding.

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Updated:January 11, 2018, 12:05 AM IST

Kamala Mills Fire: 1Above Pub Owners Arrested While Trying to Flee Mumbai

Fourteen people had died in the fire in the early hours of December 29.

Mumbai: The owners of 1Above pub, who were wanted in connection with the December 29 Kamala Mills fire that claimed 14 lives, were arrested on Wednesday night from Mumbai.

Police said two of the three owners - Kripesh and Jigar Sanghvi were nabbed while they were trying to flee the city. The third, Abhijeet Mankar, is still absconding.

The arrest came just a day after hotelier Vishal Kariya was arrested for sheltering the three accused at his suburban residence in Juhu.

The Sanghvi brothers and Mankar were absconding since December 29 when the fire swept through 1Above and adjacent Mojo's Bistro resto pub in Kamala Mills compound in central Mumbai.

N M Joshi Marg police station senior inspector Ahmed Pathan said the trio were booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other offences under various sections of the IPC.