The building that came down is situated on the premises of legacy waste dumping yard, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi said. It was being used as an administrative office of a private company processing waste on behalf of the civic body.

The Delhi Police Special Cell interrogated the six suspected operatives after their arrests and revealed the alleged conspiracy to carry out petrol bomb attacks at key locations in the national capital on the directions of Pakistan-based alleged ISI handler Shahzad Bhatti.

KPS Gill, IPS officer and former DGP of Punjab, led Operation Black Thunder and anti-militancy drives in the 1980s-90s. Hailed as a ‘supercop’, he faced human rights allegations.