Mumbai: The Yellow Gate Police, investigated the sinking of the barge of Paapa 305 (P305) during the Tauktae cyclone, on Friday arrested three people, including Director Paapa Shipping Co.
Pvt Ltd, because it did not issue their customs correctly.
A total of 261 crew were on board when the barge began to sink on May 16 in the Arabian sea.
While mostly rescued by INS Kochi and Col Kolkata, 71 died.
“Eight P305 employees are still missing,” said a source.
Those who were arrested were Nallasopara Resident Nitin Sinha (32), a director in Paapa Shipping, Akhileshwar Tiwari (49), technical supervisors, and Prasad Rane (46), manager.
All three were arrested for guilty murders who did not amount to murder.
The Esplanade Court returned them to the police custody until July 8, the Yellow Gate Police, a Zone Port Mumbai police station, had jurisdictions of up to 200 miles of sea at sea.
His jurisdiction scattered to Daman on the west coast, to Sawantwadi (Ratnagiri).
While the approved staff power agreed was 692 personnel, the police station only had 150 personnel.
The police have registered Fir on May 20 against captain P305, Rakesh Ballav, and several others for the murder that is capable of not amounts to murder.
Ballav had died in an accident and his body was claimed by relatives three weeks later.
Paapa 305 anchored near the rig in Heera’s oilfield, about 35 miles of sea west of Mumbai.
The police said it was owned by Durmast Enterprises Ltd, and rented AFCONS infrastructure to work in ONC.
AFCONS has signed an agreement with the company and arranged accommodation for employees at P305.
Shipping Paapa is the technical manager of P305 Barge.
Coastal police cottages in Maharashtra, Goa, Daman and Gujarat have been told to find missing personnel, Mumbai police said.
Mustafizur Shaikh who complained, a survived and head engineer, had alleged that he had repeatedly asked the captain to give a signal of the call to be depressed but the Ballav delayed it for more than 10 hours.
Many crew jump into the sea.
Investigators, who recorded the victim’s statement, said at 11:30 a.m.
on May 16, the barge began to drift during the cyclone.
It sank on May 17 night.
Police investigated 63 cases of unintentional deaths related to the incident.
The investigation found that the Ballav on May 14 sent a message WhatsApp to his company that they had moved a barge of 175 meters from the platform, and it was safe, said a police officer.
The investigator collected emails from barges to the basic office after May 14, and a message WhatsApp, a barge survey report when leaving Mumbai in September last year.
Police are also looking for satellite telephone details from the company.