Saturday, April 01, 2023

India's supreme court rejects government plea seeking more compensation for 1984 Bhopal gas disaster victims

Good news! India is cleaning up its act! How much longer was this supposed to go on? Several more decades?

"India's Supreme Court on Tuesday [3/28/2023] rejected the government's plea seeking more compensation from Union Carbide Corporation for victims of a gas leak in the central Indian city of Bhopal that resulted in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
In the early hours of Dec. 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory, owned by the American company, in the state capital of Madhya Pradesh. More than half a million people were poisoned that night and the official death toll exceeded 5,000. ..."

India's top court rejects govt plea seeking more compensation for Bhopal gas disaster victims | Reuters

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