August 11, 2021
The high court said that setting up of
The court then commented that everything seems okay on the paper but practically
nothing would be done.M.Mumbai: The Bombay high court has appointed a
three-member judicial committee to probe the Kamala Mills fire incident as well
as to see how such incidents can be avoided in the future.Court rejects bail
pleas of 11 accused in caseA sessions court on Friday rejected the bail
applications of eleven accused arrested in connection with the massive fire at
Kamala Mills compound, which killed 14 persons.â€"This committee shall go into
the root of the fire incident. The committee has been set up in order to avoid
repetition of such incidents in future,†the court ordered..The court posted the
petition for hearing next week when the names of the members would be finalised.
The court clarified that a retired HC judge, an architect of the HC panel and a
retired bureaucrat or retired member of the urban development department or
secretary of the town planning department would be a part of the
committee.Sessions judge A.
Borde and Justice Rajesh Ketkar was hearing the PIL
filed by Mr Ribeiro. Yawalkar rejected the bail applications filed by Lisbon
Lopes, Kevin Bawa , Ramesh Gowani , Ravi Bhandari , Utkarsh Pandey , Yug Pathak
and Yug Tuli , Rajendra Patil , Jigar Sanghvi, Kripesh Sanghvi and Abhijit
Mankar .On Friday, the court, while dictating its order, said, "Such incidents
should not be repeated in the future.The court was China fire
couplings manufacturers hearing a PIL filed by retired commissioner of
police Julio Ribeiro, who sought that a judicial committee be set up under the
Commissions of Inquiry Act to probe the Kamala Mills fire of December 29, 2017
and expose illegalities of restaurant owners as well as Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation officers on Thursday. The BMC had opposed the committee, but the
state had left the decision to the court. The high court said that setting up of
a judicial committee was the domain of the state government… Hence, considering
the facts and circumstances of the case, we need to have an independent probe.
On
the other hand, special public prosecutor Prakash Shetty objected the pleas,
saying the accused had knowledge that such incidents could occur at any moment
but failed to take precautionary steps.L.A division bench of Justice R.The
defence lawyers of almost all the accused had contended that section 304 is not
applicable on this case because the accused did not have the intention to cause
the deaths of anybody. On Thursday, BMC and the state government had mentioned
forth steps taken by them after the fire and a future plan to prevent such
incidents. 14 people were killed and over 30 injured when the fire broke out at
two restaurants — 1 Above and Mojos Bistro — at Kamala Mills compound in central
Mumbai. They had contended that, at most, they could have been charged for 304 ,
a bailable offence
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