ORDER

BY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR AGARWAL, JUDICIAL MEMBER

1. The victims of an incident wherein, a blast-occurred in a factory boiler (reactor) resulting in death of 02 persons and severe injuries to 03 persons have come up before this Tribunal by means of the present Original Application (hereinafter referred to as ‘OA’) invoking its jurisdiction under Sections 14 , 15 and 17 of National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 (hereinafter referred to as ‘NGT Act, 2010’). Two persons died in the incident are Shankar Lal, son of Vijay Pal and Pravin Kumar, son of Chatru. The persons injured in the incident are Sainky, Sohan Pal and Dinesh. Applicant-1 (Lakshmi) is wife of Shankar Lal (deceased) and applicant-2 (Chatru) is father of Pravin Kumar (deceased). Applicants-3, 4 and 5 are three injured persons who have approached this Tribunal for claiming compensation on account of the damage/injury suffered by them.

2. The facts in brief disclosed in the OA are that M/s. Durga Enterprises, khasra no. 757/1 and 762/2, village-Masoori, Fitkari Road, Meerut through its partners Deepak Jain and Amit Jain, is an industrial unit engaged in the manufacture of rubber oil, tyre oil and black carbon etc. throug