The Gujarat authorities on Wednesday introduced a brand new, state-level Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to analyze into the blast at Deepak Merchants warehouse in Banaskantha district the place 21 folks had been killed on Tuesday.
Notably, this state-level SIT comprising an IAS officer, an IPS officer, an FSL officer and an engineer, was fashioned round 12 hours after the primary one was fashioned by the Inspector Normal of the Border Vary comprising Banaskantha law enforcement officials. The brand new SIT has been ordered to submit its report inside 15 days.
This comes at the same time as Khubchand Renumal Mohanani and Deepak Khubchand Mohanani, the house owners of the warehouse, booked for culpable murder not amounting to homicide alongside different prices at Deesa Rural police station on Tuesday, had been but to be arrested about 22 hours after the incident.
State Well being Minister Rushikesh Patel on Wednesday introduced the formation of the SIT to inquire into and submit a report on the causes and occasions that led to the tragedy. The order, issued by the House Division, names IAS Bhavin Pandya, the Secretary of Land Reforms, Income Division, because the chairman of the SIT. Its members embrace Deputy Inspector Normal of Police (DIG) Vishalkumar Vaghela; Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Gandhinagar, HP Sanghavi; and Chief Engineer of the Street and Buildings Division, J A Gandhi.
The workforce has to analyze into the basis reason for the explosion, discover out if any permission was obtained to run a firecracker warehouse within the industrial GIDC space, and if the house owners had permission to retailer explosive substances.
The committee has additionally been requested to seek out out if rules underneath The Explosives Act, 1884, and Factories Act, 1948, had been adopted; if labour legal guidelines and legal guidelines associated to youngster labour had been being adopted; and if building norms had been flouted whereas constructing the warehouse.
The SIT investigation may even reveal if the premises had hearth security tools and a Fireplace Security Certificates (FSC), if regulatory inspections had been carried out recurrently; and if any negligence had led to the tragedy.
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The order additional requested the Banaskantha civic administration, police, native authorities and different investigating businesses to lend assist to the SIT in its investigation.
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