Yug Tuli, the Nagpur-based co-owner of Mojo's Bistro, was arrested by the Mumbai Police on Tuesday
An India Today report claimed that Yug Tuli and his wife had been spotted at the Hyderabad airport
Yug Tuli, the Nagpur-based co-owner of Mojo’s Bistro, was arrested by the Mumbai Police on Tuesday. Wanted in connection with the Kamala Mills fire that took the lives of 14 people on December 29, sources say that Yug Tuli surrendered at the NM Joshi Marg Police station early on Tuesday morning.
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Mumbai Police, officials said, "We have arrested Yug Tulli, after he surrendered himself before police today morning at N M Joshi Marg Police Station," S Jaykumar, Additional Commissioner of Police (Central) told PTI.
Tuli was last spotted at Hyderabad airport and then unconfirmed reports claimed he was in Amritsar. According to the police, a relative of Tuli has told cops that he was in Amritsar. Earlier in the week, Yug Tuli had filed for anticipatory bail and the sessions court had reserved its judgement about the same. Meanwhile, three other accused, Kripesh and Jignesh Sanghvi and Abhijeet Mankar — owners of 1 Above — who were nabbed earlier in the week and were produced in Bhoiwada court.
He will be produced before a court today, said Jaykumar. After the arrest of Tulli -- who had been evading arrest since last two weeks -- all the owners of the Mojo's Bistro and '1 Above' have been arrested, another official said. On Sunday, Tulli was spotted at the Hyderabad Airport with his wife but disappeared before the police could arrest him, he said. The deadly fire, which had engulfed Mojo's Bistro and the adjacent 1 Above pub, at the Kamala Mills compound on December 29 last year had claimed 14 lives.
Tulli, a Nagpur based businessman, and his partner Yug Pathak, the son of former Pune Police Commissioner K K Pathak, were booked under sections of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The action was taken on the basis of the Mumbai Fire Brigade's report which had said the fire possibly started at Mojo's Bistro due to the flying embers of a hookah and spread to 1 Above, he said. Initially this offence was registered against the three owners of the '1 Above' pub, managers, and staff, he said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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