India, Nov. 2 -- Two weeks after a fire at the Imperial Heights building in Nalasopara killed two women and injured four others, the Achole police have booked builder Gangaram Mukund and his firm's partners for alleged negligence. A police and fire department inquiry allegedly found that the building's firefighting equipment was non-functional and emergency routes were locked.

Mukund is the owner of Shree Ganesh Venture, the construction firm associated with the building. The case was registered on Saturday following a complaint by police sub-inspector Dhananjay Garje, senior police inspector Sujitkumar Pawar of the Achole police station said.

The accused have been booked under Sections 106(1), 125(a), 324(5) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya N...