Tag: curative petition
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Survivor Organizations Reach Delhi With Legal Representation Regarding the Curative Petition Hearing
October 10, 2022 Bhopal disaster survivors’ organizations reached New Delhi today to submit a legal representation to the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya.
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Survivors of Union Carbide gas disaster condemn the Indian Govt for failing to prepare for the Curative Petition for additional compensation
Press Statement September 20, 2022 Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal have condemned the Indian government for failing to prepare for the Curative Petition that began to be heard in the Supreme Court today. They demanded that the government use the three weeks till the next hearing to…
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Survivors Remind State & Central Govts to Stop Misleading the SC Constitutional Bench in the Bhopal Gas Disaster Compensation Matter
Press Release 27 August 2022 At a press conference today, leaders of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster welcomed the recent announcement on hearing of the long pending Curative Petition before the Supreme Court of India. They also expressed their apprehension that the Bhopal survivors will be denied just compensation…
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Curative Petition for Additional Compensation on 28th Jan 2020
On January 28th 2020 a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court sits to begin the most important, potentially the most historic hearing on Bhopal for over thirty years. Shortly after the gas tragedy, India took over responsibility for all legal claims against Union Carbide. Following a US Courts refusal to hear the claims, claims worth $3.3…
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Bhopal Gas victims stage dharna & demand that MP government stop misleading the Supreme Court in the matter of additional compensation
Press Statement July 25, 2019 Hundreds of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster sat on a day long Dharna (sit-in) today demanding that the state government stop misleading the Supreme Court in the matter of additional compensation by downplaying the damage caused by the disaster. Led jointly by four local organizations, the survivors called upon the state…
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Government of Madhya Pradesh & Govt of India are misleading the Supreme Court by not presenting the correct figures of deaths and injuries caused as a result of the disaster
Press Conference 14 March 2019 At a press conference today, leaders of four organisations of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster called upon central and state governments to revise the figures of death and illness caused by the disaster before the Curative petition for additional compensation is heard by the Supreme Court next month. The…
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Press Conference: Fighting for Justice, Survivors Will Begin Indefinite Fast Without Water
At a press conference today, five organizations working for the welfare of survivors of the December ‘84 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today announced that a group of survivors and their supporters would be going on an indefinite fast without water to remind the central government of its responsibilities towards the curative petition for compensation…
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Letter to Prime Minister: Ensure justice in the 30th year!
Sub: Ensure justice in the 30th year for those affected by poisons of Union Carbide & Dow Chemical. To: Honourable Prime Minister Government of India, North Block,Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110 011, Fax No. 011-23016857 September 12, 2014 Dear Prime Minister, We are writing to you on behalf of five organizations working for the welfare of the survivors…
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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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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 5
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 27-04-2011, DAY 5 Today was a busy day inside the court. The discussion in last few days revolved around the scope of a curative, its ground and whether by admitting a…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 4
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 26-04-2011, DAY 4 Today, to me it seemed that Mr. Salve essentially repeated the arguments he had made on the last hearing. He started from where he had left the Court…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 3
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 20-04-2011, DAY 3 The Court room was completely packed. Today there were many more law students present. In neat black and white uniforms their eagerness to merge as one among the…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 2
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 19-04-2011, DAY 2 Having reached the Supreme Court in time and securing a place in the public gallery I finally got some time to take in the general ambience of the…
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Bhopalis welcome curative petition in SC for compensation enhancement
February 28, 2011 Press Statement Representatives of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today welcomed the admission of the curative petition for enhancement of compensation by the Supreme Court of India. Holding the Government of India primarily responsible for the collusive settlement of 1989, they stated that the government’s…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 1
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 13-04-2011, DAY 1 The morning started in the characterstic Bhopali style with unpredictable chaos. While Sathyu had to rush back home to get his identity proof, a mandatory requirement to enter…