Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The chronicle of Bhopal in the courts is of a case doomed to failure. In step after step from that fateful night of 2 December 1984 onwards, the government, legal luminaries and, even on occasion, the Supreme Court of India failed the victims of Bhopal, and one could even say …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government will file a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking to revive charges of culpable homicide against the accused in the Bhopal gas leak case. The petition will challenge the 1996 judgment and review order of the Supreme Court, in which Justice …
The Madhya Pradesh government today said it would file a review petition in the sessions court against the recent verdict in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as the sentence to all convicts was insufficient in view of the magnitude of the crime. The state government has also decided to constitute …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily requesting him to place some of their demands requiring urgent attention before the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM). Among these are the setting up of the promised Empowered Commission on Bhopal …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government …
Seeking to zero down on the right healing touch to rectify the political damage from the 26-year-old Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up by the PM will look afresh at remediation measures as well as the complexities of giving additional compensation to victims. This also raises …
What is sorely missing is the political will to get to the truth behind such tragedies, says ERVELL E MENEZES The recent judgment in the Bhopal gas leak, the worst industrial disaster in history, was a mockery of justice
Ex-CM Accused Of Illegally Sending Anderson Out; Ex-US Embassy Official Says Indian Govt Assured Of Safe Exit For UC Boss AS FORMER Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh faces allegations of arranging for
The erosion and flood-hit citizens of the districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia have decided to drag the State government to Court if the former failed to respond with immediate remedial measures. A general convention held at Natya Mandir in Amollapatty here involving representatives of various non-governmental organisations, youth organisations and …
PM Asks Panel To Meet Immediately & Suggest Follow-Up Measures New Delhi: With the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict triggering an in-house Congress drama, government sought to shift focus onto the group of ministers (GoM) set up to examine the trial court
Pune Lokayat, a Pune-based organisation is holding a rally on Wednesday in protest against the recent judgment delivered in the Bhopal gas tragedy. The rally will be carried out from the Corporation bus stand via Shivaji Road to Tilak road to Mahatma Phule Mandai. In a release the organisation has …
With the Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict coming in for widespread condemnation, the role of the Supreme Court in watering down the charges from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to a charge of death by negligence has come under increased scrutiny. Recently, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily even blamed the …
New Delhi: As the fallout of the judgement on the Bhopal gas tragedy continues to embarrass the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked a group of ministers (GoM), headed by home minister P Chidambaram, to meet
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: The Bhopal gas leak victims on Sunday appealed to Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to follow up on his remarks over the failure of the judicial system in delivering justice by filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court against the June 7 verdict of a …
V.R. Krishna Iyer The court verdict shows that India is still in a Victorian imperial-feudal era, distances away from the socialist dream. The political parties that were in power during these years are guilty of culpable neglect One extraordinary feature of the outcome is that the highest officer who was …
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to …
New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against …
IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh. Citing a newspaper report that appeare in an English daily on December 8, 1984 Mukherjee said, "It's on published …
