New Delhi, June 11 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday, June 10, directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to pay Rs.50 lakh each as compensation to the kin of eight victims of a hotel fire incident in Kurla or Mumbai. All eight victims died in a fire in Hotel City Kinara in 2015.

As many as eight persons were killed when a fire broke out inside the Kurla hotel on October 16, 2015. Seven of them were students aged 18-20, and the eighth victim was a 31-year-old design engineer from Virar.

The high court was hearing petitions filed by parents of the victims seeking to quash the Lokayukta's February 2017 order, which dismissed their complaint seeking a probe. The Lokayukta, while dismissing their pleas, noted that compensation ...