The Madhya Pradesh government today admitted in the Assembly today that the main convict Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in the Bhopal gas tragedy case could have been granted bail in a court rather than from police station where the bail was granted.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre to take over the management of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust running super-speciality treatment centres for the 1984 gas victims.

The apex court also accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice A M Ahmadi as the chairman of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust.

Maneesh Chhibber

New Delhi: The Centre has asked attorney general Goolam E Vahanvati to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas leak case, asking it to set aside the 1996 judgment of a Bench headed by then Chief Justice of India AM Ahmadi, which had ordered the CBI to water down the charges against the accused.

The Union Government has asked Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas leak case, asking it to set aside the 1996 judgment of a Bench headed by then chief justice of India A M Ahmadi, which had ordered the CBI to water down the charges against the accused.

The licence permit raj has morphed into a system which is just as crippling
A V Rajwade / New Delhi July 19, 2010, 0:44 IST

New Delhi: As it prepares to move a Bhopal sessions court to fasten stringent charges under Section 304-II IPC on those held responsible for the Bhopal gas leak case, CBI is recognizing that it may have restricted leeway against the most prominent of those convicted for the disaster, Keshub Mahindra.

New Delhi: The SC

The role that our scientists and engineers played, on the spot, during the catastrophic period has not been duly brought out

Much has been written about the recent judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy. But the role that our scientists and engineers played, on the spot, during the catastrophic period has not been duly brought out. It was nothing less than heroic. Let us see why and how.

The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever.