Kamala mills fire: Mojo’s Bistro owner Yug Tulli surrenders

Shiv Kumar
Tribune News Service
Mumbai, January 16

Yug Tuli, one of the owners of Mojo’s Bistro restaurant located in Kamala Mills, surrendered before the police after returning to Mumbai from Amritsar. He was produced before the Bhoiwada magistrate’s court, which remanded him to police custody till January 20.

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“I was in Amritsar waiting for anticipatory bail. I have come here to surrender after my bail plea was rejected,” Tuli told reporters before surrendering at the NM Joshi Marg police station this morning.

Tuli, who is based in Nagpur, is one of the owners of Mojo’s Bistro. The other owner, Yug Pathak, son of former Director General of Police KK Pathak, has already surrendered to the police.

Police were looking for the owners of Mojo’s Bistro after a report from the Mumbai Fire Brigade said that the fire that killed 14 people at Kamala Mills on December 29 last year had started at the restaurant. Although all the victims were at the 1Above restaurant next
door, the fire had started from the hookahs served at Mojo’s Bistro, the fire brigade had said in its report.

The three owners of 1Above have already been arrested and are in police custody.

Tuli was on the run and was spotted at Hyderabad airport on Sunday, but have police the slip. Later the police said he was at Amritsar but had failed to nab him till he surrendered this morning.