More than 25 years after gas spewing from a Bhopal pesticide plant on a December night killed several thousand and left many more affected, a local court today convicted seven former officials of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) after a marathon criminal trial.
Final judgement on Bhopal gas disaster delivered 25 years, after the tragedy by Bhopal district court. 8 senior executives of Union Carbide have been convicted and sentenced to 2 years of Jail. But this is too little & too late, say victims and the activists.
After a trial lasting more than two decades, the judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster which killed and maimed thousands of people, would be pronounced on Monday.
CJM Mohan P. Tiwari will pronounce the judgment after a 23-year-long trial in the case from the now defunct Union Carbide factory on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
After a marathon trial of more than two decades, a Bhopal court on Monday will deliver its verdict in the gas tragedy case that has left the victims and their families angry and hopeless.
The PMO documents on Dow Chemicals and its liability on Bhopal gathered by Bhopal activists. These have brought to light a letter written in 2006 by Dow Chemicals CEO Andrew Liveris to the then Indian ambassador to the US Ronen Sen, claiming that the Indian government had said that his company is not liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy.
There is an increasing shift towards globalisation not only of the world economies but also of the world's legal systems. Broadening of locus standi in South Africa has deconstructed the fears that informed the conservative common law approach to the issue of locus standi or standing, with its roots in private law individual rights.
Lucknow: In a judgment that will go a long way in wildlife protection in UP, Allahabad additional district judge S N Agnihotri on Tuesday awarded 12 poachers three-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 each under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Ten of these poachers, who belong to Katni in Madhya Pradesh, are women.
