Bhopal Gas Tragedy verdict to be delivered on Monday
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, June 06, 2010
Defunct Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal
The trial court of chief judicial magistrate in Bhopal is likely to deliver its verdict in the world’s worst industrial disaster case on Monday. The arguments in the case were finished on 12th of May this year.
The accused include the then chairmen of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) Warren Anderson, Union Carbide (eastern) Hong Kong and UCC who were declared absconders in the case.
Scores of people were died and thousands of people became permanently disabled when the toxic MIC gas leaked from the Bhopal plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) on the mid night of 2nd and 3rd December in 1984.
The district administration has imposed prohibitory orders in and around court premise given the sensitivity of the judgement.
The trial took 23 years to complete. A whole generation of gas victims has passed before the trial ended and sentence is being pronounced.
