India, June 9 -- NEW DELHI

A Delhi court on Monday denied bail to the chef arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with a fire that broke out at a bed-and-breakfast facility in Hauz Rani last week, killing 22 people.

Keshav Negi, 65, who had worked as a head chef at Flourish Stay B&B in Malviya Nagar's Hauz Rani for over a year, was arrested last week, on allegations of failing to inform guests or the police about the fire which police claimed had spread from the kitchen. He was subsequently sent to two days' police custody.

The order was passed by judicial magistrate First Class Bhanu Pratap Singh of Saket courts, arguing that the head chef of the facility showed "gross" and "negligent" act by saving himself even as the fire allege...