Letter: Detection of City Branch Crime (DCB) arrested four more people, including three Directors of the Taloja-based Chemical Company based on Maharashtra, Hikal Ltd, in connection with the GIDC gas leak tragedy.
Even as Hikal Ltd issued a statement that claimed that the chemistry spent was not the same as those who had left the place where the company in Taloja, DCB was arrested was Mansukh Patel (50), Head, Sustainability and Company Affairs, Abhay Dandekar (48), General Manager was responsible for The supply chain and Machhindranath Gorhe (49), the head of the production division in Hikal.
“Sodium Hydro Sulphide (16% dilute solution) which is a harmless chemical produced at the company’s Taloja factory entrusted to Sangam Enviro Private Limited for processing and subsequently sold to the textile / cement sector.
The company clarifies that this comes from different tanker bearings No.
GJ-06-ZZ-6221.
This is not the same tanker who left where the company was in Taloja, “the statement reads.
The four were sent to police custody until January 17, based in Sangam Enviro’s Ashishkumar Gupta (41), the key architect of a gas leak case, has bought 25,000 liters of chemicals at Rs14 per liter from the Hikal which said it would be sold to cement makers.
He was arrested along with the other five including two Sangam Enviro dirradara, Nilesh Bahera (28) and Maitrai Vairagi (39).
In addition, the police also caught Raman Baria (40), aakash row house resident in the Pandesara area in the letter.
Baria, who runs the Powerloom unit at Sachin GIDC, illegally released acidic chemicals for a moment before the defendant threw out the sulfor hypoklorite.
Mixing both chemicals resulted in toxic gas that spread in the area, police said immediately inhaled toxic gases produced in the area from illegal toxic dumping, while 23 workers were more struggling to live their lives in the hospital.