The team included members of the vigilance department and other officials who had gone for an inspection. When the cage was coming up, it collapsed due to breakage of a rope.
ASG SV Raju, representing the ED, sought clarification on whether the declared void arrest might preclude them from exercising their rightful powers to arrest.
The opposition party's attack came after Prime Minister Modi, in an interview to News 18, said he won't be fit for public life if he starts playing the Hindu-Muslim card.
Rescue teams had earlier extricated 89 persons from under the collapsed hoarding, of whom 14 were declared dead while the other 75 were injured, as per officials.
