Kolkata, June 27 -- A complaint was lodged against Firhad Hakim, former mayor of Kolkata and two other ex-councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Anwar Khan and Shams Iqbal on Friday in connection with the collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Taratala that killed 16 persons and left 17 others injured.

"We have received a complaint against Hakim and two former councillors Anwar Khan and Shams Iqbal. The complaint alleged that several illegal buildings have been constructed in the area and the role of the three needs to be probed. Investigation is going on," said police.

This comes two days after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said in the legislative assembly that the previous Trinamool Congress-led board of the ...