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Kamala Mills Fire: One more arrested by Mumbai Police

NM Joshi Marg police have arrested a Juhu-based hotelier from whose possession the police have recovered a car used by one of the partners of 1 Above. The arrested person has been identified as Vishal Kariya, who is a friend of one of the accused associated with 1 Above. “We have arrested Kariya and have recovered accused Abhijeet Mankar’s car from his possession,” confirmed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone III, Virendra Mishra.

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NM Joshi Marg police have arrested a Juhu-based hotelier from whose possession the police have recovered a car used by one of the partners of 1 Above. The arrested person has been identified as Vishal Kariya, who is a friend of one of the accused associated with 1 Above. “We have arrested Kariya and have recovered accused Abhijeet Mankar’s car from his possession,” confirmed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone III, Virendra Mishra.

“We are now probing how, why and when he got possession of Mankar’s car? He could not reply when we asked him these questions. Also, he did not inform the police about having kept Mankar’s car. Initially when we questioned Kariya, he gave a fake identity and claimed to be Vikas and not Vishal. His lie was soon caught,” said another police officer.

In its preliminary probe report, the Mumbai Fire Brigade had said the blaze had possibly started at Mojo's Bistro due to the flying embers of a hookah. The fire had spread to adjacent 1 Above, a swish terrace resto-pub located in a building in the Kamala Mills compound in central Mumbai.

It is suspected that the patrons killed in the fire were dining at 1 Above.

The police had last week arrested Yug Pathak, another co-owner of Mojo's Bistro, in connection with the incident.

Pathak, the son of a retired IPS officer, and Tulli, a Nagpur-based businessman, were booked under sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life and personal safety of others) and other relevant provisions of the IPC.

The police had earlier arrested two managers of 1 Above in connection with the case.

In a related development, the two managers of 1 Above -- Kevin Bava and Lisbon Lopez -- were today remanded to judicial custody till January 22 by a magistrate's court here after the police submitted that they did not need their custody anymore.

The bail applications of Lopez and Bava are posted for hearing tomorrow.

The police had recorded Pathak's statement in the case earlier. The names of Pathak and Tulli were added to the FIR, which was lodged on December 29 against the owners of 1 Above -- Kripesh Sanghvi, Jignesh Sanghvi and Abhijeet Mankar. 

With inputs from PTI

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