Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny is call­ing on LM­CS to pro­vide the nec­es­sary in­for­ma­tion so that rel­a­tives of the divers who died in the Feb­ru­ary 2022 tragedy and the lone sur­vivor can be com­pen­sat­ed.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Paria said it has been dili­gent­ly work­ing to process claims for com­pen­sa­tion fol­low­ing the trag­ic in­ci­dent which claimed the lives of four LM­CS divers, but point­ed to a scarci­ty of in­for­ma­tion from at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the af­fect­ed fam­i­lies and the com­pa­ny.

The four divers—Kaz­im Ali Jr, Yusuf Hen­ry, Fyzal Kur­ban and Rishi Na­gas­sar—died af­ter be­ing sucked in­to an oil pipeline on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2022. The fifth div­er, Christo­pher Boodram, was the on­ly one to sur­vive the ac­ci­dent.

There have been nu­mer­ous calls from the divers’ rel­a­tives and Boodram for Paria to pro­vide com­pen­sa­tion.

How­ev­er, Paria said de­spite its ef­forts to do so, progress has been hin­dered by a lack of in­for­ma­tion from LM­CS and the le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the af­fect­ed fam­i­lies.

“Paria’s at­tor­neys are ac­tive­ly ex­chang­ing cor­re­spon­dence with those who have sub­mit­ted claims, aim­ing for a bal­anced ap­proach that con­sid­ers all rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers. This in­cludes LM­CS, the divers’ em­ploy­er, the terms of their em­ploy­ment, and oth­er crit­i­cal in­for­ma­tion,” Paria said.

The com­pa­ny stressed that de­vi­at­ing from this es­tab­lished process could lead to de­lays in reach­ing a res­o­lu­tion. 

“The com­pa­ny en­cour­ages LM­CS and the af­fect­ed fam­i­lies to re­spond con­struc­tive­ly to the cor­re­spon­dence is­sued by Paria and its agents. This co­op­er­a­tion is es­sen­tial for en­sur­ing that all com­pen­sa­tion claims are ad­dressed prop­er­ly and swift­ly,” it added.

Paria as­sured the af­fect­ed par­ties and the pub­lic of its com­mit­ment to find­ing a fair and ex­pe­di­ent res­o­lu­tion,

“The com­pa­ny re­mains ded­i­cat­ed to mov­ing for­ward as quick­ly and just­ly as pos­si­ble.”
When con­tact­ed for com­ment, the at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies, Prakash Ra­mad­har, said he would re­spond to Paria’s state­ment at a me­dia con­fer­ence to­day. —Rhon­dor Dowlat