Garden Reach: One of the owners of the Garden Reach plot where an unauthorised under-construction five-storey building collapsed and killed 13 people was arrested on Thursday.
This takes the arrest count in the case to four.
Police identified the man arrested on Thursday as Mohammad Dilnawaz, alias Raza, 40, of J-506/C Azhar Molla Bagan.
“He has been arrested from Islampur (in North Dinajpur) by the Special Investigation Team in connection with the Garden Reach incident,” said the deputy commissioner of Kolkata Police in charge of the port division, Harikrishna Pai.
Raza has been charged with murder and under other sections of the Indian Penal Code. The charges against him are similar to the ones slapped on the other accused arrested in the case.
Earlier, the police had arrested the promoter of the building that collapsed, Mohammad Wasim; one of the land owners, Pappu; and a labour contractor, Sheikh Rippon, in connection with the case.
One more landowner, who jointly owns the plot with the arrested two, is still allegedly at large.
The illegal five-storey structure collapsed close to midnight on March 17, trapping a number of people under it. Many of them died.
The death count rose to 13 with the death of a 23-year-old youth who had been in
hospital since the building collapse. He succumbed to his injuries 16 days after the incident.
The police said Raza will be produced in the Alipore court on Friday.
The rest of the accused who have been arrested are in police or judicial remand.