Overview
- Police now put the death toll at 25, including four tourists and 14 staff members, with the identities of seven victims pending and six people under treatment.
- Most victims were found near the kitchen and are believed to have died of suffocation, while three fatalities were from burn injuries, according to officials.
- Authorities say a cylinder blast is suspected, though some eyewitnesses reported the fire starting on an upper floor and forensic confirmation is pending.
- A culpable-homicide FIR has been filed, managers are under arrest, and warrants have been issued for the owners as a magisterial inquiry gets underway.
- Officials cite safety failures and access constraints—narrow exits, flammable temporary materials, fire trucks stopping about 400 metres away—order audits and licence reviews, and the Prime Minister announces ₹2 lakh for each victim’s family and ₹50,000 for the injured.