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The decease toll successful the Anandapur warehouse occurrence has risen to 27, with the Baruipur police forming a Special Investigative Team (SIT) to probe imaginable lapses, negligence, and irregularities linked to the incident, which gutted 2 godowns connected January 26.
“The fig of missing reports was 27, and assemblage parts of 27 individuals person been recovered from the site. The SIT volition supervise the probe earlier filing a chargesheet,” a elder serviceman from the Baruipur district constabulary told The Hindu on Monday.
The SIT volition besides investigate to identify those responsible for the fire. It volition beryllium led by the Superintendent of Police, Baruipur, and volition see different elder officers.
Wow! Momo manager Raja Chakraborty and lawman manager Manoranjan Sheet were arrested connected Friday successful transportation with the occurrence at Anandapur’s Nazirabad locality successful eastbound Kolkata. The decorator who owned 1 of the godowns astatine the site, Gangadhar Das, was arrested earlier connected January 28 and remains in constabulary custody.
Police said 3 Wow! Momo workers were among those killed, portion the remaining victims were workers associated with the decorator’s establishment. Most bodies were recovered charred beyond recognition, with respective recovered successful parts. Authorities said DNA tests would beryllium conducted to found the identities of the deceased arsenic families of the victims hold for answers.
The incidental has triggered a governmental slugfest betwixt the ruling Trinamool Congress and the absorption Bharatiya Janata Party. “The occurrence that happened in Anandapur was not an mishap but alternatively a man-made catastrophe caused by the corruption successful the Mamata Banerjee government,” Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday, portion addressing a enactment workers rally in North 24 Parganas ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections this year.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee criticised the BJP for what helium termed “divisive politics”, urging parties to refrain from politicising the incident. “Everyone should rather join hands to help ensure that specified incidents bash not hap successful the future,” Mr. Banerjee said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has faced monolithic disapproval from crossed enactment lines for her soundlessness connected the tragic incidental which claimed 27 lives. She has truthful far announced ₹10 lakh compensation for the families of the deceased, but has neither visited the tract nor made any further statements. Meanwhile, elder leaders from respective governmental parties person visited the affected area.
