Karol Bagh fire: Licence holder of hotel arrested

The Delhi Police has arrested Shardendu Goel, the licence holder of Hotel Arpit Palace where a massive fire killed 17 people last week, officials said on Tuesday.

Goel was produced in the Tis Hazari court, which sent him to a four-day police custody, a senior police officer said.

His brother Rakesh Goel, the owner of Hotel Arpit Palace, was arrested from the Delhi airport on Saturday after he landed from Qatar.

Shardendu had applied for anticipatory bail, which was rejected by the Tis Hazari court, the officer said, adding that he later surrendered to the police.

The police said they would be jointly interrogating the Goel brothers to know about the lapses that had led to the incident.

Shardendu was in Delhi at the time of the incident. After he learnt about the incident, he fled home and kept visiting his relatives' places at between Sonipat and Delhi.

Rakesh has admitted that norms were violated by the hotel and that an illegal construction was carried on an entire land when the ...