Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has sought a fair and impartial investigation into the arrest of Keshav Negi, a cook from Uttarakhand, in connection with the fire at a bed-and-breakfast facility in Delhi's Malviya Nagar that killed 21 people.
Dhami spoke to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta over phone and was assured that no innocent person would face injustice and that the investigation would be based solely on facts and evidence.
Senior Congress leader Harish Rawat has questioned the arrest of the cook, alleging that the real culprits behind the tragedy were being shielded.
Negi was arrested on Saturday and remanded to two days' police custody. He had been working as a cook at the establishment for over a year and told investigators that he saw a spark in a fryer, which subsequently caught fire.
However, Negi's counsel claimed that the blaze was caused by an electrical short circuit elsewhere in the building and not in the kitchen, as alleged by the police.
