Top Law News Gas tragedy: Order reserved for higher punishment August 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment BHOPAL: The district and sessions judge has reserved its judgement on a revision petition filed by the CBIand the state government seeking enhancement of punishment in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, awarded by a lower court on June 7, 2010. The revision petition seeking enhancement of punishment was filed by the CBI and the state […] Read more » Bhopal gas tragedy case defence counsel argued enhancement of punishment gas tragedy Gas tragedy: Order reserved for higher punishment judge Sushma Khosla Keshub Mahindra lower court awarded punishment Order reserved for higher punishment Union Carbide
Top Law News Government toed Union Carbide’s line on compensation: RTI October 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Government toed Union Carbide’s line on compensation: RTI Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide’s plant here, the Indian government agreed to the “terms” set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world’s worst industrial disaster as a “railway accident”. “We have […] Read more » Bhopal victims Union Carbide
Environment Law News Apex court to hear plea to hike Bhopal gas victims’ relief February 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said it would hear a petition of the central government seeking enhancement of compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy to the tune of Rs.7,500 crore. The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Altmas Kabir, Justice R.V. Raveendran, Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice Aftab […] Read more » apex court Bhopal gas tragedy Bhopal gas victims hike Justice Aftab Alam Justice Altmas Kabir Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice R.V. Raveendran methyl isocyanate gas of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia plea Relief Union Carbide
Top Law News We are starving, say ex-staff of Union Carbide December 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment They are neither victims nor accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and yet 632 former permanent employees of the now defunct Union Carbide plant find themselves at the receiving end. They were employees at the plant, which saw the world’s worst industrial disaster break out on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, killing thousands […] Read more » Union Carbide
Top Law News Bhopal gas survivors want to meet Obama November 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Even before US President Barack Obama landed in Mumbai, about a hundred survivors from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy staged a demonstration outside the Union Carbide factory here, demanding to meet him in Delhi Nov 8. The survivors and those affected by groundwater contamination caused by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste voiced their demand, saying Obama […] Read more » Bhopal gas methyl-iso-cyanate gas Obama survivors Union Carbide