Korba, January 11: Three top Chinese officials were today arrested in connection with the BALCO mishap which claimed over 40 lives last September.
Three officials of M/s Sepco Company – Project Manager U Chunan and civil engineers Lu Gukan and Wan Wang were arrested under IPC Sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons means), police said.
The Sepco officials were produced before a local court which remanded them in judicial custody for seven days, SP Ratanlal Dangi said.
Around 80 Sepco officials had come from China to install the chimney in the Balco company, Dangi said.
–Agencies