The police raided the hideouts of the shop owner Mohammad Faiz and said that he initially spread rumor about the blast that a water booster motor exploded and evaded the spot.
Following the incident, CM Yogi constituted a three-tier committee headed by the Divisional Commissioner, Lucknow, which will submit its report to the government in a week.
When asked if Rahul Gandhi would continue his padayatra in wake of security lapses by the J-K administration as alleged by his party, the Wayanad MP said, "Yes, we will. It will continue."
The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) on Thursday while continuing the rescue operation, retrieved a body of a woman, 48 hours after the collapse of the Alaya Apartment building in Lucknow's Hazratganj, said the SDRF on Thursday.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the project proponent to pay Rs 70 crores within one month to be utilized for the restoration of the environment in relation to stone quarry collapses in Mizoram state where several persons had died.
The Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) DS Chauhan said that rescue and relief work is being done at full speed in Dhuliya Ganj area where six houses collapsed during the excavation work.
So far, 16 people have been rescued from the debris created after the Alaya Apartment Building collapsed in the Hazratganj area of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday constituted a three-member committee to probe into the case of a residential building collapse in Lucknow's Wazir Hasanganj.