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Final judgement on Bhopal gas disaster delivered 25 years, after the tragedy by Bhopal district court. 8 senior executives of Union Carbide have been convicted and sentenced to 2 years of Jail. But this is too little & too late, say victims and the activists. <br />
After a trial lasting more than two decades, the judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster which killed and maimed thousands of people, would be pronounced on Monday. CJM Mohan P. Tiwari will pronounce the judgment after a 23-year-long trial in the case from the now defunct Union Carbide factory on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
Twenty six years after the world
After a marathon trial of more than two decades, a Bhopal court on Monday will deliver its verdict in the gas tragedy case that has left the victims and their families angry and hopeless.
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Twenty-six years after one of the worst industrial disasters, Bhopal gas tragedy which claimed thousands of lives occurred, a local court trying the case would pronounce its verdict on June 7.
