LUCKNOW, June 25 -- The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Aliganj commercial building fire that killed 15 people questioned Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) officials on Wednesday over the operation of a pet shop in the gutted building and the collection of commercial tax from premises that, according to records examined by the team, stood on a plot treated by the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) as residential in nature, officials familiar with the inquiry said.

On the second day of its probe, the two-member SIT comprising additional chief secretary (tourism, culture and religious affairs department) Amrit Abhijat and additional DGP (Lucknow zone) Praveen Kumar also sought answers from electrical safety authorities on w...