LG Polymers CEO, two administrators, eight officers held

Police on Tuesday evening arrested the CEO and two administrators apart from eight different officers of LG Polymers in reference to the styrene vapour leak incident through which 12 folks had been killed and 585 fell sick on Might 7.

Visakhapatnam metropolis Commissioner of Police R Okay Meena gave this info to PTI over telephone.

The arrests had been made a day after the Excessive-Energy Committee, appointed by the state authorities to probe the vapour leak, submitted its report back to Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, blaming a number of inadequacies on a part of LG and slackness of administration over poor security protocols and whole breakdown of the emergency response procedures within the plant that resulted within the tragedy being.

The Gopalapatnam police registered a case on Might 7 in opposition to LG Polymers at R R Venkatapuram, underneath varied IPC Sections together with 278 (making ambiance noxious to well being).

Precisely two months later, the arrests had been made.

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