Tag: criminal trial
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Dow lawyers fill Bhopal court in criminal liability case, Railway Men series still being written, says Bhopal group
Press Statement, Bhopal, November 25. In the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Vidhan Maheshwari, a group of 10 lawyers appeared today on behalf of Dow Chemical to deny that, by this appearance, Dow was accepting the jurisdiction of the court. The criminal proceedings, from which Carbide has been a proclaimed absconder for 31…
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Dow ‘appears’ in Bhopal criminal court after two decade delay
Press Statement 3 October 2023 Today, the authorised representative of Dow Chemical USA, Ms. Amy Wilson has filed a so-called partial appearance before the court of Hon. VII CIVIL JUDGE-I Vidhan Maheshwari through its lawyers. Dow filed a one page memo stating that Bhopal Court does not have jurisdiction over the corporation as it is…
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Survivor Orgs Celebrate as Bhopal Court’s Summon is Served Upon Dow, Demand CBI to Ensure Speedy Prosecution
Press Conference October 2, 2023 At a Press Conference today, four organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster celebrated their success in having the summons of the Bhopal District Court served upon The Dow Chemical Company in the criminal case arising out of the December 1984 gas disaster. They demanded that the Central…
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Bhopal District Judge orders UCIL & its convicted officials to present all its arguments from 25-29 April 2022
Press Release 26 March 2022 The organisations working with the survivors of the December 84 Union Carbide disaster are hopeful that there will be an end to the long drawn out criminal appeal proceedings pending against Union Carbide India Limited, & 7 of its Indian officials since 2010. In a hearing held on 25 March…
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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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Key source documents in the unheard case against UCC
The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal will not be in the courtroom when the verdict against the Indian defendants is announced. Union Carbide Corporation and its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have refused since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer charges of culpable homicide. The evidence…
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Ten years, zero convictions
The criminal case that is Bhopal’s second, seemingly eternal disaster SOMEBODY was criminally responsible for the Bhopal gas leak of December 1984, somebody should have been punished. Nothing of the sort happened. Instead the case lies trapped in the labyrinth called the Indian legal system. The CBI filed the chargesheet before the chief judicial magistrate…
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Bhopal court rejects application to dilute charges against Carbide CEO Anderson
We have just had a phone call from Bhopal to tell us that the criminal charges against former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson are not to be diluted. “The women are literally dancing in the streets,” said our caller. Speaking from Johannesburg where Bhopal supporters have been protesting against the presence of Dow Chemicals at…