Vadodara Gas Limited officers to be booked in 2018 PNG blast case, court told
Dhanani, who runs a pizza joint, had rented an apartment in Ellora Park for four of his employees, who suffered burn injuries in the blast that took place after they lit a mosquito coil on the midnight of July 20, 2018.
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Reuters quoted local online news outlet in Santa Barbara County, Noozhawk, and reported that the suspect, who was already inside the building, threw a bag in an arraignment courtroom which then exploded. (Representational image)Officers of Vadodara Gas Limited (VGL), the distributor of piped natural gas in Vadodara city, will be booked in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a 2018 incident in which four persons were killed due to a blast from a leaking VGL pipeline in an apartment in Gorwa, the city police informed the Gujarat High Court last week.
In its order dated August 6, Justice HD Suthar of the Gujarat High Court disposed of a petition filed by Dhruvesh Dhanani, a restaurant owner, who had pleaded before the HC in 2021 for the FIR to include VGL officials as accused in the case.
Dhanani, who runs a pizza joint, had rented an apartment in Ellora Park for four of his employees, who suffered burn injuries in the blast that took place after they lit a mosquito coil on the midnight of July 20, 2018.
In his petition, Dhanani had contended that the negligence of VGL had caused the blast as despite the owner of the apartment disconnecting the gas supply in 2010, the pipeline had not been sealed off.
Dhanani, while arguing his case in the HC, had also stated facts from the police investigation report according to which officials of the VGL, in their respective police statements, had said that Ethanethiol, commonly known as ethyl mercaptan, which is added to odourless gases to give a leakage warning to users, had not been added to the VGL pipelines in the city.
Officials of Gorwa police station submitted before the High Court that it would book the directors of VGL for negligence within 30 days.
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