Overview

• Police arrested Balakrishna Shetty and Sandeep Shetty and registered an FIR at Halasuru Gate Police Station for constructing unauthorised extra floors and bypassing safety norms
• Fire Department officials have preliminarily traced the blaze to a short circuit in a ground-floor plastic mat shop, with the Forensic Science Laboratory collecting evidence
• Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has ordered detailed audits and notices for unauthorised and structurally weak buildings, warning owners to reinforce or face demolition
• The Karnataka government has approved ₹5 lakh ex-gratia payments for each of the five victims, who included two children from Rajasthan
• Authorities cited a pattern of deadly fires in Bengaluru’s congested mixed-use areas, vowing stricter enforcement of fire safety and building regulations