India, June 15 -- A day after a powerful explosion at a cloud kitchen in Mahim killed one and injured seven others-one of them critically-the police on Saturday arrested the owner of an air-conditioner maintenance firm on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The blast occurred on Friday evening in the outdoor unit of an air-conditioner at a cloud kitchen operated by Rebel Foods, located near Mahim railway station. The kitchen supplies food to platforms such as Swiggy, Zomato, and EatSure.

According to the police, the explosion took place while a team from Crystal Aircon, a private AC repair firm, was conducting maintenance work on the kitchen's malfunctioning air-conditioning system. The unit had reportedly been failing...