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Govt moves apex court for additional compensation [1]

Wants Union Carbide Corp, Mcleod Russel India, Union Carbide India to increase compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore.

The government on Friday moved the Supreme Court, seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in which more than 5,000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide

Publication Date: 
04/12/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Compensation [3], Bhopal (T) [4], Industrial Disasters [5], Union Carbide [6]
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