June 7: The silence of the trial court in its verdict on the criminal liability of Union Carbide

Milind Ghatwai

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.

LALIT SHASTRI |

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 26 years of the Bhopal Gas tragedy, the world

Twenty six years after the world

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.