Tag: Legal
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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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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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Moneylenders cash in on victims’ payout
Unlicensed moneylenders in Bhopal have begun charging interest rates of up to 150% in anticipation of a payout amounting to Rs 1,503 crores (€266 million, £180 million, US$324 million) to more 560,000 surviving victims of the Union Carbide gas disaster. The survivors are also likely to be targetted by corrupt officials. Many of the gas…
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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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"Via Hand Delivery" – the text of the Government of India's letter to the US District Court, New York
June 28, 2004 VIA HAND DELIVERYUnited States District Judge John F KeenanUnited States District CourtSouthern District of New York500 Pearl Street,New York, New York 100007-1312 Re : Bano et al v. Union Carbide 99 Civ. 11329 [JFK] TO THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT : On behalf of the Union of India and as its duly…
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Dow is dragged into Union Carbide criminal proceedings in Bhopal
Judge requires Dow Chemical to show cause why it should not be named as an accused in the on-going criminal case in Bhopal in place of its absconding 100% owned subsidiary Union Carbide By Neil Hodge, writing for World Socialist By the end of the month, the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Bhopal, India, will…
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While The Law Ministry Dithers, Leading Legal Luminaries and Political Stalwarts Unanimously Opine that it is a “Golden Opportunity” that shouldn’t be missed: Hunger Strike Without Water by Bhopal Activists Enters Day 3
New Delhi, June 20, 2004: As the last day for the Indian Government to send a letter to the US Federal Court in New York for clean up of toxic contamination in and around its factory in Bhopal draws closer [June 30th being the deadline], the Law Ministry is stalling progress on this matter by…
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Tell the Indian government to say YES to a clean up in Bhopal
***Urgent Action Alert*** Fax the Government! Join the nationwide hungerstrike! In a historic ruling reached in response to a suit filed by Bhopal survivors, a court in New York has agreed to consider survivors’ claims for getting Union Carbide to clean up the toxic wastes in Bhopal. For this to happen, the Indian Government needs…
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Diane Wilson faces jail for Dow protest
Diane Wilson, “famed shrimp-boat-captain-turned-activist and merciless scourge of Dow”, attends a Texan court on Monday, 26 Jan for a jury trial. She’s facing charges of criminal trespass and resisting arrest, stemming from her August, 2002 protest action at the former Carbide plant in Seadrift, Texas. If convicted, Diane will have to serve around three to…
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US Congresspeople file amicus in Bhopal suit
“It is unacceptable to allow an American company not only the opportunity to exploit international borders and legal jurisdictions but also the ability to evade civil and criminal liability for environmental pollution and abuses committed overseas.” – Leading Congressman Frank Pallone, Times of India, 18th Oct. This unequivocal statement announced the Amicus brief that has…
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Now Euro MPs tell Dow, ‘He who pollutes must pay’
Dow must have imagined nobody would notice. Or mused that if your double standards are brazen enough, no one will point them out. From Kathy Hunt’s doe-eyed “but they don’t have Superfund over there, do they?” to Michael Parker’s dead-behind-the-eyes suggestion that the beggarly compensation money intended for gas survivors – yes, you read that…
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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…