The trial court of chief judicial magistrate in Bhopal would deliver its verdict in the world’s worst industrial disaster, Bhopal gas tragedy criminal case tomorrow. 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 was leaked from the Bhopal plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) on the mid night of 2nd and 3rd December in 1984. Our Bhopal correspondent reports that in the wake of decision district administration in Bhopal has imposed prohibitory orders in the radius of one km around the civil court premises till Monday night to maintain law and order situation. <br/>More than 25 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster struck Bhopal ,the trail court of CJM will be delivering its verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy criminal case tomorrow. The trial took 23 years to complete. A whole generation of gas victims has passed before the trail ended and sentence is being pronounced. During the trail more than 170 prosecution witnesses were examined and about three thousand documents were exhibited. NGO’s working among gas victims have demanded that accused should be punished in an exemplary manner while legal experts say that the sections under which accused prosecuted provides for maximum sentence of two years.<br/> <br/>
News On AIR | June 6, 2010 9:02 PM
Verdict in Bhopal gas tragedy case to be delivered on Monday