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Inquiry ordered into Buderiya blast

Staff Correspondent

Five persons were killed and two injured

MANGALORE: Deputy Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the blast at an unauthorised cracker- manufacturing unit at Buderiya in Alankaru village of Puttur taluk on October 15.

Five persons, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed and two were injured when a powerful blast ripped apart the unit, bringing down a partially completed house belonging to one of the victims.

As per the orders issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner of Puttur subdivision K.A. Appaiah, who is also the subdivisional magistrate, has been directed to conduct the inquiry and submit a report to him within a fortnight.

Puttur Rural Circle Police Inspector Manjunath Rai will be the departmental investigating officer in-charge and will assist Dr. Appaiah in carrying out the inquiry.

Orders received

Dr. Appaiah told The Hindu over phone that he had received the orders a couple of days ago.

Stating that he had visited the site where the explosion took place a couple of times, Dr. Appaiah said he had already carried out preparatory work in connection with the inquiry. "I have gathered information about the incident as well as talked to authorities here as to who should be invited to depose at the inquiry," he said.

It may be added here that Puttur MLA Shakuntala Shetty and president of State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party D.V. Sadananda Gowda had demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident.

These BJP leaders had maintained that it was of utmost importance to get to the bottom of the entire incident. They had expressed apprehensions about the type of chemicals that could have been used at the unit given the severity of the blast.

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