The city police on Monday registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR) into the Pawan Hans helicopter crash which claimed seven lives, even as the rescue teams recovered the body of a pilot, the seventh missing person in Saturday‘s air crash.
With the recovery of the body of a pilot, the bodies of all seven persons — including ONGC’s five senior deputy mangers — who were on board the ill-fated helicopter have been recovered.
On the third day of intense search operation undertaken by Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard (ICG), the ICG Samrat found the pilot’s body while an ONGC vessel Samudra Sevak in the crash site recovered more debris of the ill-fated Dauphin helicopter, including rotor blades, main gear box, tail gear box, both engines, emergency locator transmitter and other items from the Arabian Sea.
In a related development, the Santacruz police registered a case under section 174 (police to inquiry and report on suicide etc) and transferred the case to Yellowgate police station for further action
“After we complete detailed investigations in the case, the Mumbai Police will submit its probe report to the Central and State Governments,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Port Zone) Rashmi Karandikar said.
Under section 174 of
Cr PC, the officer-in-charge of a police station or some other police, officially empowered by the State Government investigates such an information that a person has committed suicide, or has been killed by another or by an animal or by machinery or by accident, or has died under circumstances raising reasonable suspicion that some other person has committed an offence.