India, March 10 -- The MIDC police have filed an FIR against a JCB operator and a road contractor for their negligence which resulted in leakage of piped natural gas from a Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MGL) pipeline running through the middle of a road in Andheri (East). The gas leak caused a Level 1 fire to erupt which affected three moving vehicles and injured the drivers in the early hours of Sunday.

The incident occurred at 12.35 am on Sunday near Sher-e-Punjab colony in Andheri East. The vehicles that caught fire were two-wheelers belonging to Arvindkumar Kathial, 21, and Aman Saroj, 22. Kathial sustained 30-40% burns, while Saroj suffered 40-50% injuries. The vehicle of auto rickshaw driver Suresh Kailas Gupta (52) was spared but he sustaine...