Tag: Legal
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Survivors’ Letter to Prime Minister Re: Petition for Additional Compensation
August 1, 2014 Honourable Prime Minister, Government of India, North Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110 011 Subject: Urgent Directions for Filing of Application for Amending Civil Curative Petition No 345-347/2010 for Additional Compensation before Supreme Court on August 5, 2014. Dear Sir, On behalf of the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide gas…
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Important Legal Developments
As you may be be aware, Dow Chemical/ Union Carbide are still embroiled in a number of legal cases surrounding the Bhopal Disaster. Dow chooses to maintain that a ‘full and final settlement’ was made, back in 1989, but that is simply not true and there have now been important developments in two of the outstanding cases.…
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Survivors ask Chief Minister to withdraw false cases
DOWNLOAD THE LETTER IN THE ORIGINAL HINDI To, The Chief Minister Government of Madhya Pradesh Mantralaya, Vallabh Bhawan Bhopal, M.P. 25 January 2012 Sub: Application for withdrawal of criminal cases against over 2000 gas victims in connection with the incident of violence on the 27th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.…
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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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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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Letter to DAE from Bhopal Survivor Groups
To, Shri A.P. Joshi Chairman: Empowered Committee on BMHRC Additional Secretary Department of Atomic Energy Government of India Anushakti Bhawan, CSM Marg, Mumbai Fax: 022-22844628 18-February-2011 Sub: Case for effective administration of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Research Centre by the Department of Atomic Energy and rejection of proposal by the MP Government regarding setting…
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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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Times of India exposes Dow’s double standards on Bhopal
Here is something for legal eagles of the government of India to chew on: while Dow Chemical Company denies any responsibility for damages caused by Union Carbide in Bhopal, it has taken over all liability of Carbide for fighting out over 75,000 asbestos related law suits in the US. Dow/Carbide expects to incur liability costs…
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Union Carbide US was the real criminal
The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal were not in the courtroom yesterday when eight Indian employees of Union Carbide India Limited were found guilty of criminal negligence. Union Carbide Corporation (US), its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have been refusing since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer…
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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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India orders arrest of American in Bhopal gas leak
NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press, July 31, 2009 NEW DELHI — An Indian court issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of the former head of the American chemical company responsible for a gas leak that killed at least 10,000 people in Bhopal 25 years ago. Warren Anderson was the head of Union Carbide Corp. when…