Delhi: Fresh arrest in Karol Bagh hotel blaze

Delhi | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

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Read | Death Trap Hotel: The sequence of events after the Karol Bagh fire was detectedA senior CBI officer then wrote to the Delhi Police licensing unit to cancel the hotel’s licence. Two days after Rakesh Goel, the owner of Hotel Arpit Palace, was arrested, police arrested his 69-year-old brother on Tuesday. Police said Shardendu owns a hotel in Gurgaon, and was allegedly hiding with relatives in Haryana and Delhi. We then arrested him and produced him in court, which sent him to four-day police custody,” said DCP (Crime) Rajesh Deo, adding that the hotel’s licence was in his name. “Rakesh constructed his hotel —complete with a circular, wooden staircase and upholstery on the walls..