The fire broke out in a showroom of Puma in the Hypercity Mall in the Kasarvadavali area. Currently, several fire tenders are present at the spot to douse off the fire.

The complainant, Durgappa, who belongs to the tribal Bovi community, was a faculty member at the Centre for Sustainable Technology at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He claimed that in 2014, he was falsely implicated in a honey trap case and subsequently dismissed from service.

“The patient, suffering from symptoms like breathlessness, weakness in lower limbs, and diarrhoea, was admitted to a private hospital (in Solapur) on January 18 as he was on ventilator support on and off. He died on Sunday,” Solapur Government Medical College Dean Dr Sanjiv Thakur said.