India, Aug. 11 -- NEW DELHI

A day after a wall collapse in Jaitpur led to the death of seven people on Saturday, police arrested a tenant who had allegedly accommodated families on the plot.

Deputy commissioner of police (south east) Hemant Tiwari said that the accused tenant, identified as Mohammed Kurshid, 49, from West Bengal's Nadia district, was arrested on Saturday. "He had allowed multiple families to stay on the plot and store scrap there," he said.

The landowner, Rajbir Bhati, a resident of the same locality, is absconding. "Efforts are being made to trace and arrest him," the officer said.

A case under sections 106 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 125 (causing death by negligence) and 290 (public nuisance) of the...