A devastating fire that tore through a three-storey building in Lucknow’s Aliganj area today, killing 15 people and injuring several others, has triggered a probe into alleged violations in the construction and use of the property. Authorities are now investigating how a structure approved as a residential building came to house commercial shops and educational facilities. Four people have been arrested and four officials have been suspended over the incident. The building on Usha Mehta Marg in north Lucknow, where the fire broke out on a busy Monday afternoon, had originally been sanctioned as a residential property. According to records of the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) and house tax documents of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation, the building’s map was approved as a house and not as a commercial establishment.
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