Noida, May 30 -- Ten days after a 27-year-old woman died of suffocation in a fire at a hotel in Sector 104, Noida, the police on Wednesday arrested the owner of the building where the hotel was being operated on charges of culpable homicide, senior police officers said on Wednesday.

On the evening of May 18, a massive fire erupted on the fourth floor of a newly inaugurated hotel in Hazipur in Sector 104, Noida. A 27-year-old woman died of asphyxiation while her 26-year-old friend was rushed to hospital for treatment for fume inhalation.

Following the incident, based on a complaint from the deceased woman's brother, a case was registered against the unidentified accused and the hotel at the Sector 39 police station on May 19 under Sectio...