28 August,2023 05:34 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Hotel Galaxy in Santacruz. Pic/Shadab Khan
Mumbai Police and Mumbai Fire Brigade have separately asked the management of Galaxy Hotel to submit relevant documents for scrutiny.
On sunday, three peple died in a fire at the Galaxy Hotel in Santacruz area.
"If it is found that the hotel has violated fire safety norms, its water and power supply may be disconnected," a senior Fire Brigade official said.
The Mumbai Police, which have registered three separate Accidental Death Reports (ADRs), said they may question the hotel manager and the owner after scrutinising documents. "Three persons, including a woman, died while three others were injured after a blaze erupted on the third floor of the ground-plus-four-storey hotel in suburban Santacruz on Sunday," officials had said.
"We have asked Hotel Galaxy to submit documents for scrutiny. If we find that the hotel has failed to comply with fire safety norms, we may snap the supply of water and electricity," Chief Fire Officer RN Ambulgekar told news agency PTI.
According to the Vakola police station officer, they have asked the hotel staff to submit relevant documents. "We are awaiting the report of the Fire department to ascertain whether the hotel, which is in the hospitality business, has violated norms," a police official said.
BMC's H/East Ward Health Officer Dr Satish Badgire stated, "We had recently issued a notice to Galaxy Hotel for failure to adhere to fire safety norms. We filed a case against it in court but no one from the hotel's side has replied to our notice."
According to the civic report, the fire gutted wiring, furniture, air conditioning, and mattresses in room numbers 103 and 203, while it also destroyed clothes for laundry, room blankets in the staircase and lobby as well as wiring in the common duct from the first to third floor.
(with inputs from PTI)
