Three persons, including an assistant municipal commissioner and a Nationalist Congress Party corporator, have been detained in connection with the building collapse in Thane district claiming 74 lives, police sources said on Sunday.
Five more persons, including an assistant municipal commissioner and a Nationalist Congress Party corporator, were on Sunday arrested in connection with the building collapse in Thane district, police said.
Over two months after 74 people were killed in a building collapse, the police on Monday filed a charge sheet against 27 accused, which included real estate developers, civic officials and a local corporator.