Four senior employees of Medley Pharma booked over Palghar gas leak
Palghar: In a significant development after a nitrogen gas leak at a pharmaceutical factory in Maharashtra's Palghar district, the Police have registered a case against four senior employees of Medley Pharmaceuticals.
The case been registered under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which concerns “culpable homicide not amounting to murder”, following the incident that killed four workers and left two others injured.
“They have been named in the FIR. The investigation is underway, and no arrests have been made so far,” the official said.
According to a report by the Medical Dialogues team, the tragic incident occurred on Thursday at Medley Pharmaceuticals, where a suspected nitrogen gas leak affected six workers.
Chief of Palghar district disaster management cell, Vivekanand Kadam, had told PTI that gas leaked from the nitrogen reaction tank at the pharma company between 2.30 pm and 3 pm, seriously affecting six workers.
"The six workers were rushed to Shinde hospital, where four of them died around 6.15 pm. They have been identified as Kalpesh Raut (43), Bengali Thakur (46), Dheeraj Prajapati (31), and Kamlesh Yadav (31). At the time of the incident, 36 workers were present in the plant," he said.
The condition of the two injured persons, Rohan Shinde (35) from Boisar and Nilesh Hadal (37) from Dahanu, is critical and they are being constantly monitored in the ICU, doctors at the facility had said on Thursday.
Local police and officials from the Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health visited the spot and began preliminary investigations.
“A probe is underway to see if there were lapses in safety protocols in place for such processes. The exact cause will be determined after technical assessment of the nitrogen tank,” another official had said.
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