Health licences of 105 hotels in Karol Bagh suspended by NDMC: Official

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has suspended health licences of 75 more hotels in Karol Bagh here, in the wake of the deadly fire incident at Hotel Arpit Palace in the area recently, a senior official of the civic body said Tuesday.

"The NDMC has suspended licences of a total of 105 hotels till today, after their fire NOCs were cancelled. Letters have also been shot off to the DJB and power discoms to cut off their water and electricity connections," the official said.

North Delhi Mayor Adesh Gupta had on Monday said that the NDMC had suspended health licences of 30 of those establishments in the Karol Bagh area whose fire safety certificates were cancelled by the Delhi government.

"After that, health licences of additional 75 hotels have also been suspended in the last few days," the official added.

Gupta on Monday had also said that the civic body's probe team investigating the deadly fire incident at Hotel Arpit Palace, in which 17 people were killed, had found that ..