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Mumbai: Nine named in writ, only one named in FIR
Updated On: 23 October, 2023 05:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Apoorva Agashe
Kin of one of those killed says employees were not provided with safety equipment at the facility
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Sasmira’s Institute of Management Studies and Research. Pic/Ashish Raje
A WRIT petition filed in connection with the Sasmira’s Institute of Management Studies and Research burn incident has named nine people responsible for the tragedy, but the Worli police have registered an FIR only against one person and spared the others. The husband of one of the deceased told mid-day that the employees were not provided with safety equipment at the time of work, and that the machine—responsible for the glycerine spill—was in need of repair.
The Worli police took action after being pulled up by the High Court for not registering an FIR against the Sasmira institute for failure to provide safety equipment to the employees which led to the death of two people last year. “I lost my wife last year as she had not been provided with safety equipment by the institute. The Worli police had filed an Accidental Death Report (ADR) in this matter. However, I filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court and after a couple of hearings the HC reprimanded the Worli police for not registering an FIR in this matter. The police then swung into action and registered an FIR,” said Advocate Amar Gharte, husband of Shraddha Shinde who lost her life due to the incident.
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