India, March 6 -- Police in Colaba have registered a case against officials of Ajay Airproducts, a gas supplier, for allegedly supplying a wrong refrigerant to the Indian Navy that resulted in a blast on board INS Ranvir in January 2022 at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, officials aware of the matter said on Wednesday.

Three sailors were killed and another 11 injured in the blast that took place in the destroyer's air conditioning compartment.

The officials of Ajay Air Products have been booked for supplying the flammable refrigerant R152 instead of a common refrigerant R22, HT has learnt. The case was registered on March 4 under sections 304A (causing death by negligence) and 437 (mischief with the intent to destroy or make unsafe a vess...