India, June 11 -- Almost ten years after eight people, seven of them students, died in a fire in a Kurla eaterie, the Bombay High Court has held the civic administration responsible for the tragedy and directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to pay Rs.50 lakh each, to the families of the eight victims.

The fire broke out on October 16, 2015, at Hotel City Kinara, on Premier Road in Kurla West, where seven students from the nearby Don Bosco Institute of Technology were seated, out for lunch. The eighth patron, seated near the youngsters, was an engineer with a private firm.

All eight patrons had been ushered to the air-conditioned mezzanine, where the fire later broke out. The blaze was caused by a leak in an LPG cylinder s...