The fire that broke out at Bhandup’s Dreams Mall late on Thursday night has brought to the fore a number of violations that happened in the process of the Sunrise Hospital – running on the third floor of the building – securing a provisional Occupation Certificate (OC) from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Records show that the civic body had issued the OC by delinking all the issues pertaining to the mall to get the hospital started in view of the pandemic.

When the hospital authorities submitted an application to the BMC for the OC in April last year, the architects had demanded that the issues of the mall – non-payment of property tax, illegal and unauthorised work – should be delinked to allow running of the hospital.