{"id":230051,"date":"2020-05-26T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=230051"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:56:13","slug":"vizag-gas-leak-incident-a-p-hc-lg-polymers-to-be-seized-and-passports-of-directors-shall-not-be-released-without-leave-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/26\/vizag-gas-leak-incident-a-p-hc-lg-polymers-to-be-seized-and-passports-of-directors-shall-not-be-released-without-leave-of-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Vizag Gas Leak Incident| A.P. 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State and centre filed their affidavits along with material to show the efforts made by them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court observed that the action reports were silent on the following issues:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>LG Polymers has been operating without a valid Environmental Clearance from the MoEFCC.<\/li>\n<li>Inhibitor concentration in the storage tank was not checked. Refrigeration system was not working properly.<\/li>\n<li>Radius of the vulnerable zone extended upto 6.3km from the source.<\/li>\n<li>There are several hospitals, education institutions, places of worship, railway stations and airport within the vulnerable zone.<\/li>\n<li>Bystander population should have been informed of the risk they were at and trained in evacuation procedures in the vent of an accident as per Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989. But, this has not been done.<\/li>\n<li>Siren\/Alarm system did not function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advocate General and Counsel on behalf of Assistant Solicitor General prayed for time to apprise the Court on the above-stated queries. Further reply was also asked for the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>What is the net worth of LG Polymers as per the provisions of the Companies Act, not as per the book value.<\/li>\n<li>After registration of crime, an appointment of investigation\/inspection team and also when the Magisterial enquiry was required, why, without appointment of the said panel or permission of Court, Styrene Monomer has been permitted to be transported to South Korea and who is the person responsible for the same?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hence, Court passed the following interim directions:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Premises to be completely seized and no one to be allowed including the Directors of the Company.<\/li>\n<li>Committee, if any, appointed wants to inspect premises, they are at liberty but shall put a not on Register maintained at the gate of the Company regarding the said inspection and a note while returning regarding what act done in premises.<\/li>\n<li>None of the assets movable or immovable, fixture, machinery and contents shall be allowed to be shifted without the leave of the Court.<\/li>\n<li>As stated before, Directors have surrendered their passport and they are in India, however, Court directs that their passports shall not be released without the leave of the Court and they be not allowed to go outside India without leave.<\/li>\n<li>It be also apprised whether, during the lockdown period, any permissions were obtained to restart the operations, if not, action taken report be filed.<\/li>\n<li>Grievance regarding appointment of various committees by NGT, Centre and State, Centre and State are at liberty to apprise as to which Committee shall fulfil the purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Respondents to file compliance report by 26th May, 2020. Matters to be listed on 28th may, 2020. [Taken UP, Poisonous gas leakage in Visakhapatnam v. State of A.P.; WP(PIL) No. 112 of 2020, decided on 22-05-2020]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari, CJ and Lalitha Kanneganti, J., addressed certain PILs that were filed in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":213668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[31367,41567,5381,41216,41189],"class_list":["post-230051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-directors","tag-lg-polymers","tag-ngt","tag-styrene-gas","tag-vizag-gas-leakage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vizag Gas Leak Incident| A.P. 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Venkata Ramana, J. while pronouncing the grant of bail to certain persons from the management of LG Polymer in the Styrene Gas Leakage Matter, quoted the following: 'Life's Good'. It is always so, on this beautiful planet, the Earth. 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The petition was filed by LG Polymers challenging the NGT Order wherein LG Polymers was directed to pay a compensation of Rs 50\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":229238,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/08\/vizag-gas-leak-tragedy-a-p-hc-court-takes-suo-moto-cognizance-of-the-incident-curtail-effect-of-styrene-gas-leak-by-sprinkling-of-water-ensure-adequate-medical-facilities-to-victims\/","url_meta":{"origin":230051,"position":3},"title":"Vizag Gas Leak Tragedy | A.P. HC| Court takes suo moto cognizance of the incident; Curtail effect of Styrene Gas leak by sprinkling of water; Ensure adequate medical facilities to victims","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"May 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Jitendra Kumar Maheswari, CJ and Lalitha Kanneganti, J., while taking suo moto cognizance\u00a0 in regard to \"Styrene Gas Leak in Visakhapatnam\" made certain observations and stated that the need of the hour is to provide adequate medical facilities to the victims. Petition was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":229251,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/08\/breaking-vizag-gas-leak-incident-ngt-leakage-of-hazardous-gas-at-such-a-scale-affects-public-health-lg\/","url_meta":{"origin":230051,"position":4},"title":"[Breaking] Vizag Gas Leak Incident | NGT |Leakage of hazardous gas at such a scale affects public health &#038; environment, attracts principle of \u2018Strict Liability\u2019 against enterprise; LG Polymers directed to deposit Rs 50 Crore","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"May 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi:\u00a0Bench comprising\u00a0 of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel (Chairperson) and Justice Sheo Kumar Singh, Judicial Member and Nagin Nanda, Expert Member took suo moto cognizance of Vizag Gas Leak incident. Tribunal noted that on the basis of media reports that there was leakage of hazardous gas,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NGT","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NGT.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NGT.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NGT.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NGT.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NGT.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":230083,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/26\/vizag-gas-leak-sc-allows-30-lg-polymers-personnel-to-access-the-plant-till-ap-hc-considers-the-matter\/","url_meta":{"origin":230051,"position":5},"title":"Vizag Gas Leak| SC allows 30 LG Polymers personnel to access the plant till AP HC considers the matter","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"May 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: In the plea challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court order dated 22.05.2020 which directed the complete seizure of the \u00a0LG Polymers\u00a0Plant in Vishakhapatnam in the case relating to the hazardous gas leak which claimed 12 lives and affected hundreds of others on May 7, 2020, the 3-judge bench\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}