Raipur, Jan 12 (IANS) The three Chinese engineers, arrested in Chhattisgarh for a chimney crash at the Balco power plant in which 41 workers were killed last year, were Tuesday shifted to a district hospital in Korba town after they complained of health problems, police said.
The engineers were employed with Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO) that was building a 1,200 MW thermal power plant in Korba town, about 240 km from Raipur, for Vedanta Resources Plc-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco).

“The engineers complained of some health problems Tuesday and were taken from the district jail to a district hospital, where doctors were conducting their necessary check-up,” Korba Superintendent of Police Ratanlal Dangi told IANS.

The engineers — Shandong’s project in-charge Woo Chunan, and two other civil engineers — were Monday arrested under Sections 304 of the Indian Penal Code (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and were presented to a local court in Korba. The court rejected their bail plea and sent them to the district jail.

The under-construction chimney that was designed to be 275 metres tall came crashing midway in September last year. It was being built by Gannon Dunkerley and Company Ltd (GDCL) that had bagged the chimney construction order from SEPCO.