Three Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) officials were arrested on Friday in connection with the mishap in the plant, which occurred on October 9 this year.
Notably, 14 workers were charred to death after a blast and fire which occurred at a gas supply pipeline in BSP, the flagship unit of India’s largest steel maker in public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The mishap was caused by fire in gas pipeline of BSP’s Coke Oven Battery Complex No 11 during a scheduled maintenance exercise.
As the warrant served was bailable they were however released after being detained and interrogated for an hour.
Bhatti Police had arrested Assistant General Manager (Energy), Naveen Kumar, General Manager Venkat Subramaniam and General Manger (Safety) Pandya Raja. Warrant was also issued for another accused Executive Director P.D. Baksh but he was out of station.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) City, Vijay Pandey informed that the three officials who were arrested were charged of dereliction in duty and a FIR under Section 304 (a) of Indian Penal Code was filed against them. The enquiry was further on, he further informed.
As the case registered were under sections which were bailable, all the three officials were later released on bail, the official said.