Tag: Indian Supreme Court
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Govt of India follows Union Carbide’s suggestions instead of ICMR findings in giving compensation
Press Statement 23-July-2011 At a press conference today five organizations working for the victims of the December ‘84 Union Carbide disaster accused the central and state governments of downplaying the damage caused by the American company in the curative petitions filed in the Supreme Court. The organizations demanded that in place of Rs 3,000-6,000 crores…
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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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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…
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Mr Justice Ahmadi does the decent thing
Mr Justice Ahmadi, the Supreme Court justice who controversially reduced criminal charges against the Indian accused in the Union Carbide Gas Tragedy trial, has resigned. Cynics may say that in doing so he hopes to escape further scrutiny of his actions in favour of Union Carbide Corporation, at the time an absconder from the same…
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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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Survivors 5, Vultures 0
In a comprehensive victory for Bhopal survivors, the Indian Supreme Court today affirmed that unpaid compensation money amounting to £187 million (€270 million, US$343 million), belonged to the survivors and to them alone. The court dismissed applications by the government of Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Union Carbide’s Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust and…
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Supreme Court Says Money is for Survivors
Press Statement issued by Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz SUPREME COURT SAYS MONEY IS FOR SURVIVORS The Supreme Court of India today gave a decision that the distribution of the balance of compensation amount of over Rs.1567…
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While politicians posture, people die
For more than 20,000 people who suffered terrible injuries on the night of poison two decades ago, recent Supreme Court decisions about clean water and distribution of compensation monies come too late. Those twenty thousand are the dead. In their case neither was justice done, nor any humanity shown. The company, whose actions by any…
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Bhopal roads blocked for clean water
Tired of waiting for the government of Madhya Pradesh to obey a five-month-old Supreme Court order to supply clean water to contaminated areas, communities bearing the brunt of Carbide’s water poisoning today forced the issue with a blockade of two of Bhopal’s main roads. The action follows recent meetings with Babulal Gaur, then Minister for…
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Survivors celebrate Supreme Court victory
Organisations working with the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster held a celebratory party for S Muralidhar, the survivors’ lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. As counsel for Mrs Rashida Bee, Mrs Champa Devi Shukla and 34 other victims of Carbide’s gases, Muralidhar had moved a Writ arguing that undistributed compensation money…
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Supreme Court orders unpaid compensation money to be given to survivors: celebrations in Bhopal, gloom in Midland, Michigan
19 July, 2004, Bhopal In a major victory for the Bhopal survivors, the Supreme Court today ordered the Government of India to distribute the balance of compensation remaining from Union Carbide’s settlement among the 566,876 Bhopal survivors whose claims have been successfully settled. The balance of the hitherto undistributed compensation has accumulated interest and grown…