surat nine days after a massive blast in chemical factory yashashvi rasayan private limited yrpl killed 10 people and injured over 70 others the dahej marine police in bharuch filed an fir against seven company employees for culpable homicide not amounting to murder on thursdayin the fir seven employees of yrpl have been accused of negligence during transfer of chemicals in the storage tanks that caused the blast on june 3 the accused include a contractual employee atal bihari kumar mandal tank operator mahesh jivan galchar production incharge bharat bhushan alias bharat agarwal production incharge unit head dharam thummar liquid storage farm area head mitesh patel incharge of dms alok panda and fire safety head yunus khiliwalathey all have been booked under ipc sections 285 negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter 337 causing grievous hurt by act of endangering human life by rashness or negligence 338 causing grievous hurt by act of endangering human life or personal safety and 304 culpable homicide not amounting to murderdespite knowing about the danger of chemical reaction due to the wrong transfer of the chemicals in the storage tanks the officials did not take any remedial measures to neutralise the reaction resulting in the series of blast in the storage tanks we are still awaiting the forensic report the accused are yet to be arrested investigations is still going on said rajendrasinh chudasama superintendent of police bharuch according to the fir the massive blast in the liquid chemical storage tanks occurred due to grave negligence during the transfer of the dimethyl sulphide dms and nitric acid hno3 into the storage tanks from the tankers which resulted in a chemical reaction leading to series of blasts in the 14 storage tanks on june 2 the two separate tankers loaded with dms and hno3 arrived in the companys liquid storage farm for unloading the raw material when the unloading of the chemical was about to be completed tank operator mahesh galchar checked the hosepipe connections of both the tankers and found that they were interchanged by that time about 25 tonne of dms was transferred into the hno3 tank 18 tonne of hno3 into the dms tankhowever galchar stopped the unloading and informed his higher officials including the plant head and dms head regarding the goofupincharge police inspector of dahej marine police vipul gagiya told toi when the company officials realised their mistake they studied the literature and found that the mixture of dms and hn03 will not have any chemical reaction and thus they decided to transfer the remaining hn03 into the dms tank on june 2 however there was some reaction and at about 12 pm on june 3 there was a huge blast in the btank where both the chemicals were stored