The Bhopal gas leak disaster symbolises the failure of the legal system in general and the failure of the system to respond to the disaster in particular. The twenty years of engagement with the law and the justice system holds many lessons for the future. It is time for introspection and assessment.

Twenty years on, the verdict on how the Indian state has responded to Bhopal should be unequivocal: not only did it neglect its responsibilities, it actively suppressed the rights of the victims.

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lethal teflon: The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has charged the DuPont company with hiding the adverse health and environmental effects of Teflon, used in its non-stick cookware and carpet

Twenty years after the worst ever man-made disaster in the country, victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy got a direction from the Supreme Court for the disbursement of a Rs 1,567 crore compensation to them, paid by US pesticide major Union Carbide.

A government is preparing to go into denial

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The Supreme Court's order to disburse among the Bhopal gas victims the unspent compensation amount remaining with the RBI presents an opportunity to reopen and correct the distortions in the 1989 settlement reached between Union Carbide Corporation and the Government of India.

Bhopal gets promised a long awaited Rsl,503 crore

For some, the figure of Rsl,503 crore may appear a bounty. But lakhs of people in Bhopal have been waiting anxiously for several years to get this money, and it's rightfully theirs for the taking. A Supreme Court diktat that would enable them to get the money had been eluding them.

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