The decision not to press for the extradition of the then chairman of Union Carbide Corporation, Mr Warren Anderson, wanted for trial in the criminal case arising out of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, was taken at a core group meeting of the government of India in early 1995.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed shock and concern at the judgment pronounced by the Bhopal chief judicial magistrate in the criminal case linked with the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster. He has raised the question whether the sentence of two years is adequate for those responsible for the worst industrial disaster that left in its wake death and destruction.

A Hyderabad-bound Jet Airways flight with 36 passengers on board had a close shave after the nose wheel of the aircraft broke off while landing at the Raja Bhoj Airport here on Wednesday, airport sources said.

NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H. Ahmadi’s widely reported statement that it was a “correct decision” of the Supreme Court bench headed by him in 1996 which converted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charge under the stringent provisions of 304-II

Anguished over the trial court’s verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy, an NGO working for the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster that killed over 15,000 people, on Tuesday said it will challenge the judgment in Madhya Pradesh high court and meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and law minister M. Veerappa Moily in this regard.

Over 25 years after the deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide plant here in December 1984, which killed over 20,000 people and critically wounded hundreds of thousands others, Bhopal’s chief judicial m

The civil society organisations and NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have played a major role in seeking justice for the victims of the worst industrial catastrophe.

It was on the midnight of December 2 and 3, 1984 when tonnes of deadly poisonous gas had leaked into the air from the Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal — the central Indian state of Madhya Pra

“Surely justice has been done.” This was how the chief judicial magistrate Mohan P.

It was on the midnight of December 2 and 3, 1984. On that dreadful night, death ruled the city of Bhopal. Thousands perished within a few hours.