The MIDC police have arrested two accused in connection with the ESIC Kamgar Hospital fire which claimed eight lives and injured more than 100 on Monday. An FIR in this regard was registered under section 304(a) against the Powai-based Supreme Construction that was working on the new hospital building. Site in-charge Nilesh Mehta and assistant supervisor Nitin Kamble have been arrested for causing death by negligence but no officials from the hospital have been named in the FIR.

Two welders on the construction site were named in the FIR but have not been arrested so far. Primary facie, the reason for the fire was thought to be the welding sparks from the third floor in the new building of the hospital falling onto the rubber mat on the ground floor.