The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has suspended health licences of 75 more hotels in Karol Bagh here, in the wake of the deadly fire incident at Hotel Arpit Palace in the area recently, a senior official of the civic body said on Tuesday. “The North Corporation has suspended licences of a total of 105 hotels till today, after their fire NOCs were cancelled. Letters have also been shot off to the DJB and power discoms to cut off their water and electricity connections,” the official said.

North Delhi Mayor Adesh Gupta had on Monday said that the NDMC had suspended health licences of 30 of those establishments in the Karol Bagh area whose fire safety certificates were cancelled by the Delhi government.

“After that, health licences of additional 75 hotels have also been suspended in the last few days,” the official added.

Mr. Gupta on Monday had also said that the civic body’s probe team investigating the deadly fire incident at Hotel Arpit Palace, in which 17 people were killed, had found that “violation of fire safety norms seemed to the main factor” resulting in the tragedy.

The Delhi government has already taken action and cancelled fire safety certificates of over 100 hotels inspected in the Karol Bagh in the past few days.

He had said the probe team of the corporation has submitted its report and “more action” will be taken once it is analysed. It will also be seen if there was any fault on the side of the civic officials, the mayor added.

“The magisterial inquiry by the Delhi government is already underway. And we are also taking appropriate action from our side,” he said.