A case of culpable murder not amounting to homicide was registered towards the proprietor of the agency – Nikunj Shah
The proprietor of SVS Aqua Technologies, who was arrested in reference to a fire tragedy at his chemical plant close to right here which claimed 17 lives, was on Wednesday remanded to police custody till June 13 by a court docket in Pune.
At least 17 employees, together with 15 ladies, had been killed in the large fire at SVS Aqua Technologies’s plant, which producers chemical compounds, together with chlorine dioxide (used in water purification), on Monday.
A case of culpable murder not amounting to homicide was registered towards the proprietor of the agency – Nikunj Shah – who was arrested on Tuesday and produced earlier than a Judicial Magistrate ( First Class ) on Wednesday. He was remanded to police custody till June 13 by the court docket, mentioned an official.
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The prosecution advised the court docket the accused’s agency had stocked sanitizers with out the mandatory allow and this warranted a probe.
“It was vital for the agency to take utmost precaution about sanitizer storage.
However, the agency did not take sufficient security precaution and an investigation is required in that course,” mentioned the prosecution.
Seeking custody, the prosecution advised the court docket the police want to research if the agency had knowledgeable the economic security division and the well being division concerning the inventory of sanitizers on the plant, positioned in the Pirangut MIDC space of Mulshi tehsil on the outskirts of Pune metropolis.
An inquiry committee report has additionally identified that sanitizer aggravated the fire whereas the darkish smoke brought on by sodium chloride burning made it tough for the victims to discover a approach out of the blaze-hit website, it mentioned.
Inflammable uncooked supplies had been saved on the identical place the place the fire broke out, the prosecution mentioned.
The Pune district administration had discovered 20,000 to 30,000 bottles of sanitizer in the agency’s stock. The chemical agency apparently used to supply sanitizer liquid from outdoors and promote them after re-packaging, officers had mentioned earlier.
