India: Four officials at Ambuja Cement have been arrested following an accident with five fatalities at the company's cement plant at Rawan in Chhattisgarh.

"Vice President of Ambuja Cement Sanjay Kumar Badopadhyay, DGM Production K Venkat Stayanarayan Murty, DGM Mechanical Rajendra Singh Kurmi and GM electrical Sanjay Kumar Mishra have been arrested in connection to the Ambuja cement factory (incident)," said a police officer to the Press Trust of India. They were booked under IPC sections 287 (negligence with machinery), 337 (endangering life or personal safety) and 304A (causing death by negligence).

Five workers were killed on 31 January 2013 when a fly ash container crashed into the mixing unit of the plant at Rawan village. A case has been registered against Ambuja Cement management and the labour department has ordered a halt to factory operations until an investigation into the incident has been completed.

Chief Minister Raman Singh has directed the factory management to provide compensation of US$18,800 to the kin of each victim and a job to one member of their families. A six-member panel headed by additional collector of Balodabazar district has also been formed to conduct magisterial probe into the incident, which has been asked to submit its report in one week.