Mumbai Kamala Mills fire: Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil to move Bombay High Court for seeking CBI probe

Mumbai: Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Friday said he will move the Bombay High Court seeking CBI probe into the Kamala Mills compound fire. Addressing a press conference here, he said a PIL in this regard will be filed next week. Vikhe Patil also alleged that the Bhima-Koregaon violence was a state-sponsored riot and demanded that the judicial probe into the violence should be monitored by the high court.

“I will move the Bombay High Court seeking CBI probe into the Kamala Mills compound fire,” Vikhe Patil said. He said a Congress delegation will also meet Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, seeking suspension of BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta. The opposition leader said the government had entrusted the inquiry into the  Kamala Mills fire to Mehta.

“This is ideological bankruptcy. How can you ask the Commissioner to probe the fire, which has been caused due to corruption in the civic body, apathy of the government and inefficiency of the commissioner himself,” Vikhe Patil asked. “Provision of section 302 of IPC (punishment for murder) should have been invoked against Mehta and he should have been suspended,” Vikhe Patil said.