Hotel Shikha Inn fire: Kolkata Police file charge sheet against 3 accused

Kolkata, Nov 13 (UNI) The Kolkata Police have filed a charge sheet against three accused in connection with the fire at Hotel Shikha Inn in the New Market area that claimed nine lives nearly three months ago. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), comprising detectives from Lalbazar, submitted the charge sheet at Bankshall Court on Thursday against Bireshwar Mitra, Abu Jafar and his wife, Saba Jafar. The fire broke out on the third floor of the hotel on Mirza Ghalib Street in the early hours of August 19, killing nine people, including seven Bangladeshi nationals and a child. Filed within 90…