NEW DELHI: Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati on Tuesday told the apex court that the two-year jail term handed down to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case is completely inadequate and is totally disproportionate to
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PTI | 08:04 PM, Apr 20, 2011 New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) Former Chairman of Union Carbide India Keshub Mahindra, who has been sentenced to two years jail term in Bhopal gas tragedy case, today opposed
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New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court was Tuesday told that the Bhopal gas tragedy case fell in the rarest of rare category and the court must remove all obstacles so that the perpetrators of
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“Bhopali” (Van Maximillian Carlson, USA, 89 mins) “Bhopali” explores the full scale of the destruction caused in the small rural town of Bhopal, India after one of the world’s worst industrial accident. On a quiet December
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Criminal Case It was only on 01.12.1987 that the CBI finally filed its charge sheet against 12 accused (including Kishore Kamdar, Vice President, Agricultural Production Division, UCIL, as accused no.4; UCC, USA, as accused No.10; Union
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Mahim Pratap Singh in The Hindu Survivors press for special treatment to the case Request Supreme Court to ask Centre on action taken BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas leak disaster have urged the Supreme Court
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The Eruption The first leak of MIC was noticed on 02.12.1984 at about 23.30 hours in the MIC structure area near the VGS. The operators on the ground level in this area felt the presence of
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J. Venkatesan in The Hindu It was sitting on a powder keg, agency tells court, justifying filing of curative petition UCIL was running the plant with structural and operational defects Tragedy cumulative result of series of
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Towards Disaster The shutting off of the refrigeration system of the MIC unit in June 1984 signaled the beginning of the journey towards disaster. The crucial subsequent developments were as follows. According to UCIL: “…from 22nd
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Management’s Gross Indifference The rising sense of insecurity forced Shahnawaz Khan, a Bhopal-based lawyer, to serve a legal notice on the UCIL management on 04.03.1983 complaining about the danger, which the UCIL plant posed to the
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In Dec. 1984, right before midnight and without warning, the gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory. The cool night breeze blew the gas — extremely toxic methyl isocynate — over the city of Bhopal, India,
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Early warnings The pesticide unit for manufacturing “SEVIN” (the brand name of one of the pesticides marketed by UCC) was commissioned at the Bhopal plant in 1977. It was initially operated by importing MIC (which was
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