Click to play videoKolkata: Kolkata is demanding answers for the loss of 24 lives in the Stephen Court inferno in Park Street. Police have arrested the building's caretaker and assistant.
Even though the West Bengal government has said that the top floors of Stephen Court were illegal, CNN-IBN has learnt that the state government turned a blind eye to the illegal construction of the top two floors.
Stephen Court is owned by the Armenian Paul Trust and it is is controlled by Official Trustee of West Bengal.
But the state government allowed local property dealers like Sanjay Bagaria and Shiv Prasad Bagaria to illegally take over.
The state government has collected the "rents" for the lease of this property but the beneficiaries of the Trust have not received any money for last 30 years.
Under the scanner is is a notorious builder Parasmal Lodha,too, who illegaly built the fifth and sixth floors of Stephen Court.
Lodha is yet to be questioned by the police.
Also going scot-free are senior officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, fire and emergency services department and the city police.
There are the people who turned a blind eye when building and fire safety norms were being flouted in Stephen Court.
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