India, April 7 -- A 34-year-old labour contractor from Madhya Pradesh's Indore, Harish Meghwani, was arrested on Sunday in connection with the devastating fire at a firecracker factory in Deesa's GIDC area that killed 21 workers on April 1.

The deceased were workers from Madhya Pradesh who had recently arrived in Gujarat.

Khubchand Mohonani and his son Deepak Mohonani, who owned the factory, had been arrested earlier and are in judicial custody.

Police said Meghwani allegedly supplied migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh's Harda district to the factory and had made several visits to the facility prior to the incident, he added.

The Mohonanis had been operating the firecracker unit without proper licenses, and had been penalised for reg...