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Article

11 May 2011

Author:
BBC News

India's Supreme Court rejects harsher Bhopal charges

India's Supreme Court has rejected a request to re-open the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster case in order to impose harsher sentences on the accused. Prosecutors made the appeal following last June's verdict handing down brief jail sentences to seven former managers at the Union Carbide plant. The accused were prosecuted for negligence in relation to the disaster…Survivors...are extremely disappointed with the court's ruling…[T]he Supreme Court said that the "petition is based on a plea that is wrong and fallacious" [and] that "no satisfactory explanation" had been given for filing the petition…Union Carbide officials had initially been charged with "culpable homicide", but a 1996 court ruling diluted the charges…

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India: Supreme Court rejects petition to re-open 1984 Bhopal gas disaster case seeking harsher sentences for former Union Carbide managers

Union Carbide/Dow lawsuit (re Bhopal, filed in India)

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