India, Aug. 28 -- The death toll in the building collapse in Maharashtra's Virar rose to 15 on Thursday, while nine others were injured.

Till Wednesday night, 24 people were rescued by the fire brigade from the debris after a portion of the Ramabai Apartments in Narangi area of Virar East on Tuesday night.

Nittal Sane (47), the builder of Ramabai Apartment, was arrested on Wednesday under Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) and relevant sections of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act.

According to police, Ramabai Apartment, built in 2011, was declared unsafe by the Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation in May, but no action was taken.

District magistrate Indurani Jakh...