The TMC believes that the actor-turned-politician, who hails from Bihar, could mobilise Delhi’s ‘Purvanchali’ voters, a term referring to migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The Purvanchalis are an influential voter base in the city.

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.