Summary:
Three days after the blaze at City Kinara restaurant killed eight people, the police have arrested the manager, Sharad Tripathi.
Immediately after the incident, Tripathi was nowhere to be found, raising suspicions that he had fled the scene, but the cops later tracked him down at a Bandra hospital.
Pic/Sameer Markande In his statement to the police, Tripathi said he was not trying to flee, but was afraid for his health after his head was injured in the incident.
mid-day had reported that Tripathi had left the scene within minutes of the fire erupting on Friday..