No arrests made on Kaiga leak incident, says police

No arrests have been made in connection with the radiation contamination of a drinking water cooler at the nuclear power plant here, a top police official said on Thursday.

Kaiga: No arrests have been made in
connection with the radiation contamination of a drinking
water cooler at the nuclear power plant here, a top police
official said on Thursday.

"We have not made any arrests in the case so far,"
Inspector General of Police Gopal Hosur told reporters here.

"Detailed investigation is being carried out and I have
instructed the district police officials to initiate necessary
steps," Hosur, who visited the plant earlier, said.

The probe into the leak incident is being supervised by
Superintendent of Police, Uttara Kannada, Raman Gupta.

Talking to PTI, Gupta said "an FIR has been filed at
Mallapur police station (Uttara Kannada district) only
yesterday. We need some time to carry out the investigation."
An investigation team is probing last week`s incident
in which around 50 employees working in the first maintenance
unit of the plant were tested for increasing level of Tritium
also known as Hydrogen-3 after they consumed water from the
water cooler in the operating area on November 24.

-PTI

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