New Delhi: The CBI

Agency wants former Union Carbide chairman for his criminal culpability in the 1984 Bhopal gas leakage tragedy

The CBI on Tuesday moved a Delhi court to obtain a Letter Rogatory to the US authorities for the extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson to stand trial for his criminal culpability in the 1984 Bhopal gas leakage tragedy.

New Delhi: The CBI is ready with documents to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from the US for his trial in the Bhopal gas leak case which led to the death of thousands in 1984.

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The Supreme Court (SC) decided on Monday to revisit its 21-year-old judgment that allowed Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) to escape by paying a mere Rs750-crore compensation to hundreds of victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world's most ghastly industrial disasters, of 1984.
The decision comes on curative petitions filed by the Centre questioning the compensation and mellowing of the c

More than 26 years after a poisonous gas leak killed 10,000 people and maimed over a lakh in Bhopal, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review its judgments in the criminal and civil cases, which allegedly helped the accused get away with light punishment and Union Carbide pay meagre compensation.

The court issued notices to Dow Chemicals, Union Carbide, Eveready Industries India Ltd and McL

The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the petition filed by the Centre seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, in which more than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from Union Carbide factory.

When B R Lall, the IPS officer who had headed the CBI probe into the Bhopal gas leak, alleged that the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) had pressured the agency not to pursue the extradition of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, he drew not only an indignant response but also mockery from Law Minister Veerappa Moily.

Now, Lall has hit back at Moily with invectives, his latest book charging the

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