The proprietor of a coal mine in Meghalaya the place 5 labourers are trapped since Could 30 was despatched to judicial custody a day after he surrendered on June 2, State Dwelling Minister Lakhmen Rymbui has mentioned.
The 5 miners, feared lifeless, have been trapped following a dynamite blast within the pit about 500 ft deep. The mine, one of some thousand within the State’s East Jaintia Hills district, was identified to have been deserted.
4 of the trapped miners are from Assam and one from Tripura.
The district police had, a day after the mishap, detained Ok. Chyrmang, the previous proprietor of the mine. However he examined optimistic for COVID-19 and was quarantined.
“The present proprietor of the mine, Shining Langstang, surrendered on Wednesday evening. He’s a resident of Sutnga Pohshnong village and was introduced earlier than a neighborhood court docket on Thursday for judicial remand,” Mr. Rymbui mentioned, including that 5 folks have to date been questioned and their statements recorded.
District Superintendent of Police Jagpal Singh Dhanoa mentioned a lookout discover has been issued for the sordar (contractor of labourers) of the mine, recognized as Nizamuddin Ali, who’s absconding.
“A case has been registered in opposition to six individuals who had labored with the trapped miners and survived the accident, for collaborating in unlawful mining actions. They’ve been escorted to their properties in Assam with directions to look as and when known as for,” Mr. Dhanoa mentioned.
District officers mentioned steady rain has hampered the rescue efforts and it will be “extraordinarily troublesome” to drag out the miners, lifeless or alive.
The authorities have requisitioned a number of pumps to attract out the gathered water within the pit and a crane for the rescue staff to descend.
The State Catastrophe Response Pressure staff on Thursday managed to go down the pit and measured the water stage to be about 152 ft.
