Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny has failed in its bid to ex­tract it­self from Work­men’s Com­pen­sa­tion Act claims brought on be­half of two vic­tims of a div­ing tragedy at its Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022.

De­liv­er­ing a pre­lim­i­nary rul­ing on Tues­day, High Court Mas­ter Wren­er­son Lochan dis­missed an ap­pli­ca­tion from the state-owned com­pa­ny to re­move it­self as a par­ty to the pend­ing pro­ceed­ings brought on be­half of Fyzal Kur­ban and Yusuf Hen­ry.

Paria was or­dered to pay the le­gal costs in­curred by the duo’s for­mer em­ploy­er, Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (LM­CS), for de­fend­ing the ap­pli­ca­tion.