More than two weeks after a fire in KEM Hospital's ICU left a two-and-a-half-month-old baby with severe burns and an amputated arm, neither the police nor the civic body has been able to pinpoint anyone responsible for the incident. While the deceased boy's parents are demanding action against those to blame, the police and the BMC are pointing fingers at each other for the delay in identifying the guilty.

After the fire broke out on November 7, the Bhoiwada police registered an FIR under section 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life) of the Indian Penal Code and then added section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) on Friday. After the primary report indicated that the electrical nodes of the ECG cables had melted, additional municipal commissioner Ashwini Joshi ordered an inquiry on November 7 to determine whether the fire was caused by an electrical fault.