Tilak Nagar fire: Lookout notices for builder brothers in Mumbai
Ahmed Ali | TNN | Mar 2, 2019, 04:33 IST
MUMBAI: Lookout notices have been issued against two builders evading the police since a fire in one of their buildings, where several illegalities were found, killed five persons in Tilak Nagar near Chembur last December.
The police have also frozen six of their bank accounts and posted policemen at their construction sites in Mumbai in a bid to corner them. "Despite several notices, Hemendra Mahapara and Subhak Mahapara remain absconding. We want to interrogate them about the building fire, but they are evading arrest. We had sent teams to Surat and Vadodara but were not able to trace them and so we have issued LOCs," said an officer. Lookout notices (LOCs) are circulars that alert agencies manning exit points in airports and sea ports if any traveller is wanted by the police or any other agency.
The Mahapara brothers and Mukesh Kothari are partners at Reliance Realtors, which constructed the Sargam Society building, where the fire broke out on December 28. Kothari was arrested last month. After Subhak's bail plea was rejected, the brothers went into hiding and switched off their phones.
With the builders on the run, construction at their sites has come to a halt, said some residents of Chembur.
The police say they need custodial interrogation of the two to get details of the various documents submitted to the government agencies. They have got some of the papers they had submitted to the BMC.
The builders are accused of several illegalities, including giving possession without occupation certificates and NOC from the fire brigade, selling off the 15th floor refuge area, selling open parking near the main gate, thus blocking entry to fire engines, and an inadequate fire-fighting system.
The police have also frozen six of their bank accounts and posted policemen at their construction sites in Mumbai in a bid to corner them. "Despite several notices, Hemendra Mahapara and Subhak Mahapara remain absconding. We want to interrogate them about the building fire, but they are evading arrest. We had sent teams to Surat and Vadodara but were not able to trace them and so we have issued LOCs," said an officer. Lookout notices (LOCs) are circulars that alert agencies manning exit points in airports and sea ports if any traveller is wanted by the police or any other agency.
The Mahapara brothers and Mukesh Kothari are partners at Reliance Realtors, which constructed the Sargam Society building, where the fire broke out on December 28. Kothari was arrested last month. After Subhak's bail plea was rejected, the brothers went into hiding and switched off their phones.
With the builders on the run, construction at their sites has come to a halt, said some residents of Chembur.
The police say they need custodial interrogation of the two to get details of the various documents submitted to the government agencies. They have got some of the papers they had submitted to the BMC.
The builders are accused of several illegalities, including giving possession without occupation certificates and NOC from the fire brigade, selling off the 15th floor refuge area, selling open parking near the main gate, thus blocking entry to fire engines, and an inadequate fire-fighting system.
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