By way of IANS
KOLKATA: The dying toll within the explosion at an ‘unlawful’ fire-cracker manufacturing facility at Egra in East Midnapore district on Tuesday has risen to 5.
Seven different severely injured individuals are these days present process remedy at an area sanatorium.
Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee has introduced a repayment of Rs 2.5 lakh each and every for the following of relatives of the deceased, and Rs 1 lakh for the ones injured within the blast.
She ordered a probe into the topic by means of the Felony Investigation Division (CID) of West Bengal Police.
Banerjee additionally mentioned that if the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) probes the topic, as demanded by means of state BJP President Sukanta Majumdar, she is not going to object to it.
Talking to the mediapersons right here, the Leader Minister mentioned that the landlord of the fire-cracker manufacturing facility, Krishnapada Bag, used to be arrested by means of the police in October closing 12 months.
“He used to be arrested for operating an unlawful fire-cracker manufacturing facility. The police even issued a price sheet in opposition to him. However the courtroom granted him bail. After that he resumed operations on the unit positioned on the subject of the Bengal-Odisha border,” she mentioned.
Bag is absconding for the reason that blast at his manufacturing facility and the police suspect that he may have escaped to Odisha.
The Leader Minister additionally mentioned that Bag runs identical unlawful fire-cracker production industry in Odisha and Bangladesh.
Banerjee additional alleged that Trinamool Congress leaders had been stopped by means of the native BJP cadres from attaining the spot of the explosion.
“The panchayat below which the blast came about is below the keep watch over of the BJP,” the Leader Minister mentioned.
In the meantime, Sukanta Majumdar has claimed that the have an effect on of the explosion presentations that it used to be no longer an explosion of unusual fire-crackers.
“We suspect that crude bombs had been being manufactured on the manufacturing facility,” he mentioned.
The local community have alleged that the fire-cracker manufacturing facility used to be being run illegally with out considered necessary permission or tracking of the native management, together with the police.
They have got additionally alleged that their repeated appeals for taking motion in opposition to the unlawful fire-cracker factories mushrooming within the space had been overlooked by means of the native management.
KOLKATA: The dying toll within the explosion at an ‘unlawful’ fire-cracker manufacturing facility at Egra in East Midnapore district on Tuesday has risen to 5.
Seven different severely injured individuals are these days present process remedy at an area sanatorium.
Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee has introduced a repayment of Rs 2.5 lakh each and every for the following of relatives of the deceased, and Rs 1 lakh for the ones injured within the blast.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
She ordered a probe into the topic by means of the Felony Investigation Division (CID) of West Bengal Police.
Banerjee additionally mentioned that if the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) probes the topic, as demanded by means of state BJP President Sukanta Majumdar, she is not going to object to it.
Talking to the mediapersons right here, the Leader Minister mentioned that the landlord of the fire-cracker manufacturing facility, Krishnapada Bag, used to be arrested by means of the police in October closing 12 months.
“He used to be arrested for operating an unlawful fire-cracker manufacturing facility. The police even issued a price sheet in opposition to him. However the courtroom granted him bail. After that he resumed operations on the unit positioned on the subject of the Bengal-Odisha border,” she mentioned.
Bag is absconding for the reason that blast at his manufacturing facility and the police suspect that he may have escaped to Odisha.
The Leader Minister additionally mentioned that Bag runs identical unlawful fire-cracker production industry in Odisha and Bangladesh.
Banerjee additional alleged that Trinamool Congress leaders had been stopped by means of the native BJP cadres from attaining the spot of the explosion.
“The panchayat below which the blast came about is below the keep watch over of the BJP,” the Leader Minister mentioned.
In the meantime, Sukanta Majumdar has claimed that the have an effect on of the explosion presentations that it used to be no longer an explosion of unusual fire-crackers.
“We suspect that crude bombs had been being manufactured on the manufacturing facility,” he mentioned.
The local community have alleged that the fire-cracker manufacturing facility used to be being run illegally with out considered necessary permission or tracking of the native management, together with the police.
They have got additionally alleged that their repeated appeals for taking motion in opposition to the unlawful fire-cracker factories mushrooming within the space had been overlooked by means of the native management.
