Officers of Vadodara Gas Limited (VGL), the distributor of piped natural gas in Vadodara city, will be booked in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a 2018 incident in which four persons were killed due to a blast from a leaking VGL pipeline in an apartment in Gorwa, the city police informed the Gujarat High Court last week. In its order dated August 6, Justice HD Suthar of the Gujarat High Court disposed of a petition filed by Dhruvesh Dhanani, a restaurant owner, who had pleaded before the HC in 2021 for the FIR to include VGL officials as accused in the case. Dhanani, who runs a pizza joint, had rented an apartment in Ellora Park for four of his employees, who suffered burn injuries in the blast that took place after they lit a mosquito coil on the midnight of July 20, 2018. In his petition, Dhanani had contended that the negligence of VGL had caused the blast as despite the owner of the …