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According to the preliminary probe report submitted by the police and the state fire department at the meeting, sprinklers inside the building were lying defunct. Ashutosh Singh, president of Bagree Market Central Kolkata Traders’ Welfare Association, said that they will file a complaint against the owner for not taking steps to install fire fighting equipment. With Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Germany, the meeting at Nabanna was presided over by state education minister Partha Chatterjee. The fire that broke out in Central Kolkata’s Bagree market in the early hours of Sunday continued to smoulder in pockets a day after. The Chief Minister speaking to mediapersons in Germany said, “Even the bathroom area and staircases in the building were leased out..