Usha Ramanathan

WITH Opposition Congress on the defensive on the escape of Warren Anderson, the legislators of the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Monday forced adjournment of the Assembly on the Bhopal gas tragedy issue.

THE Supreme Court on Monday accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice of India and chairpers son of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) Justice A M Ahmadi and trans ferred the charge of the superspecialty hospital to the departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology.

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.

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.

K.K. Dewan, Secretary, Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT), writes:

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.

Sankar Ray

Manufacture of MIC became risky as, being a little lighter than water but twice as heavy as air, once the compound escapes into the atmosphere it remains close to the ground to do its deadly work. Exactly that happened in December 1984 together with instant damage to eyes and pulmorary-respiratory tracts, causing chronic bronchitis and emphysema

On the grimy, filth-lined streets of Bhopal's walled city that were stalked by death more than 25 years back, the outrage following the June 7 judgement in the gas tragedy criminal case by a local Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court has slowly made way for quiet dejection. In the prevailing mood of gloom, the fears of the survivors of the world's worst industrial accident have come true.

Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken.