JUDGMENT

PRESENT:

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE B. AMIT STHALEKAR (JUDICIAL MEMBER)

HON’BLE MR. SAIBAL DASGUPTA (EXPERT MEMBER)

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Reserved On:- 13.05. 2022 Pronounce On:-26.05. 2022 __________________________________________________________________

1. Whether the Judgment is allowed to be published on the net? Yes

2. Whether the Judgment is allowed to be published in the NGT Reporter? Yes JUSTICE B. AMIT STHALEKAR (JUDICIAL MEMBER)

Heard the learned Counsel for the parties and perused the documents on record.

2. This matter has been taken up Suo Motu by this Bench on the basis of a news report published in the daily ‘The Telegraph’ dated 03.06.2021 regarding an alleged incident of death of two workers after inhaling carbon monoxide that leaked at the coke oven unit of SAIL’s IISCO Steel Plant in West Burdwan’s, Burnpur (W.B.).

3. The facts as emerging from the news report is that gas leaked after a glitch at battery 11 and of three workers who were doing the job of cleaning at the battery chamber, which was otherwise shut for maintenance, two of them lost their lives due to inhalation of toxic gases at around 03:30 PM and one was rushed