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A view of the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal | Photo Credit: The Hindu
A Bench of Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and Justice Vinod Chandran requested the High Court to determine the case by itself deserves. The apex court docket clarified that it had not ventured into the deserves of the plea.
Senior advocates Raju Ramachandran, Karuna Nundy and advocate Prasanna S. appeared for the victims’ teams, together with Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha.
After 40 years, 358 tonnes of poisonous waste from Bhopal’s defunct Union Carbide manufacturing facility has been absolutely incinerated at a facility in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh. The course of adopted strict environmental tips with real-time emission monitoring. Residue from the waste might be safely buried in scientific landfills by year-end, marking a serious step in environmental cleanup. | Video Credit: The Hindu
They had urged the highest court docket to direct the Centre to determine these “misclassified” victims and categorise them appropriately beneath the provisions of the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster (Processing of Claims) Act, 1985 in order that they’d obtain ample compensation to cowl their medical therapy.
The Centre had termed the Bhopal fuel leak tragedy ‘the world’s largest industrial catastrophe”. Both the federal government and the Supreme Court had each agreed previously that the lack of harmless lives within the aftermath of the deadly escape of Methyl Isocynate (MIC) fuel from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, within the intervening evening of December 2-3, 1984 was “horrific” in each sense.
“A protracted historical past of litigation making an attempt to get better damages from the US-headquartered Union Carbide Corporation (now a part of Dow Chemicals Corporation) ended with the dismissal by the Supreme Court of the healing petitions in July 2023 whereby it was made clear that any shortfall in compensation to be paid to the victims have been a accountability of the Union authorities,” the petition stated.
The organisations stated that they had information to point out that survivors affected by most cancers and kidney failure because of poisonous fuel publicity have been categorised beneath the class of ‘minor/short-term harm’.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (February 27, 2025) remarked the petitioners against the transportation and disposal of 337 metric tons of Bhopal fuel tragedy poisonous waste at a Pithampur facility in Madhya Pradesh are indulging within the ‘NIMBY’ (not in my yard) precept | Video Credit: The Hindu
“All these circumstances must have been added as a everlasting incapacity class,” the teams had submitted.
Published – July 24, 2025 12:22 pm IST
