Nine months after a pipeline blast in a residential society in Kalol of Gandhinagar claimed the lives of three people, police arrested two officials of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for allegedly issuing a fraudulent No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the builder’s group thereby allowing construction of houses over a petrol pipeline.
On December 22, 2020, two blasts occurred around 7:30 am at House number 158 and 159 at Garden City society in Kalol, which claimed the lives of three persons- Amit Dave (26), his wife Pinal Dave ( 26) and Hansa Dave (76).
Initially, the ONGC had refused any pipeline running beneath the housing society. However, probe revealed presence of an old defunct pipeline 20 feet beneath the ground wherein the two houses impacted in the blast were built.
