Tag: Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI)
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Bhopal organisation moves for ex-parte trial proceedings against Dow Chemical
Press Statement 13 July 2016 Leaders of all the organisations of survivors of the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal today condemned the governments of both India and USA for the non appearance of any representative of Dow Chemical Company in the ongoing criminal case on the disaster. At the hearing in the District Court, counsel…
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Letter to PM Modi: Instruct CBI to Take Harsher Measures Against Dow
To Honourable Prime Minister 152, South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi-110011 14 June 2016 Sub: Instruct CBI to take harsher measures against The Dow Chemical Company (TDCC) in the ongoing criminal matter (MJC 91/92) on Bhopal disaster Dear Mr. Prime Minister, On behalf of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal…
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Supreme Court Dismisses Curative Petition – A Black Day for Bhopal
Injustice today at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court verdict on Criminal Curative Petition took everyone in Bhopal by surprise both in its timing as well as in its import. Most people were expecting the order to come in July after the Supreme Court’s vacations. That is when the civil curative petition hearing is also…
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Dow Agro: company faces ban on bribery charge
NEW DELHI: Dow AgroSciences India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, is likely to be blacklisted by the government following its persistent refusal to respond to show-cause notices over charges of bribery. The agriculture ministry had asked the company why action should not be initiated against it for bribing officials to push three sub-standard…
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Government protected Anderson: former CBI Director
INDUSTRY, IMPARTIALITY, INTEGRITY, says the badge of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the national equivalent of America’s FBI. Not according to its former Joint Director B. R. Lall, who was the senior officer in charge of the Bhopal investigation from April 1994 to July 1995. Lall, clearly nettled by criticisms that his organisation neglected…
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Talking points: why justice cannot prevail
According to Eveready Industries, the successor to Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), there was never any danger of a judgement against the company, consequently no need to provide financially for that eventuality. Whence comes this overweening confidence? “Trial proceedings before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal, on the modified charges framed under the directions of the…
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Doubts ahead of Bhopal gas verdict
RASHEED KIDWAI, CALCUTTA TELEGRAPH Bhopal, June 5: The 23-year-old criminal trial of the Bhopal gas tragedy will see the verdict delivered on Monday, but survivors fear the “glaring omissions” by prosecuting agency CBI may deny them justice. Several Indian officials of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) will be in court on June 7 as the…
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Arrest Carbide chairman Warren Anderson: Bhopal Court Orders CBI
31 July, 2009. BHOPAL — Survivors of the Bhopal disaster today danced on the streets after hearing news that the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to arrest Mr. Warren Anderson and produce him before the court without delay. Mr. Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide Corporation and the prime…