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Kamala Mills fire: Third partner of 1Above pub held

A sand sculpture commemorating the victims of the Kamala Mills fire on Juhu beach in Mumbai. Vijay Bate  

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The N.M Joshi Marg police on Thursday arrested Abhijit Mankar, a co-owner of the 1Above pub in Kamala Mills where 14 people lost their lives in a fire last month.

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Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) Virendra Mishra confirmed that Mankar had been picked up and placed under arrest early on Thursday morning.

Late on Wednesday night, the police had arrested Jigar and Kripesh Sanghvi, the other co-owners of 1Above.

Fourteen people were killed in the fire that, according to the Fire Brigade, broke out in the Mojo's Bistro and spread to the adjacent 1Above pub in the early hours of December 29 last year.

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