MUMBAI, June 11 -- Almost ten years after eight people, seven of them students, died in a fire in a Kurla restaurant, 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 in Kurla West, where seven students from the nearby Don Bosco Institute of Technology were seated. The eighth patron, seated near the youngsters, was an engineer with a private firm. On Tuesday, a division bench of Justice BP Colabawalla and Justice Firdosh P Pooniwalla said the fire could have been prevented if the BMC had acted on finding that the eatery had committed several breaches of fire safety norms. It held that the "deliberate inaction and negligence" on the part of civic officials had resulted in the fire. The judges said the fire could have been avoided if the BMC had discharged its statutory duties by cancelling the restaurant's eating house licence, seizing illegally used LPG cylinders, and prohibiting the use of the loft area/ mezzanine to serve patrons. P3...