After the arrest of the two builders Abdul Qureshi and Salim Shaikh for constructing the seven-storey building in contraventions to laws, interrogations revealed the involvement of Thane deputy municipal commissioner and six other public servants in the illegal construction. The two builders disclosed that these officials were engaged in the entire conspiracy of the illegal construction, which caved in, killing 72 people.

The officials were arrested and have been identified as Deepak Chavan, deputy municpal commissioner, Babasaheb Andhare, assistant municipal commissioner, Kisan Madke, senior clerk in Thane municpal corporation (TMC), Hera Patil, local corporator, Afsal Ansari, a building material supplier, Jahangir Sayyed, police constable, and middleman Sayad Jabbar Patel.