Image: The Union Carbide Corp pesticide plant in Bhopal
Photographs: Reinhard Krause/Reuters
Photographs: Reinhard Krause/Reuters
Twenty-six years after one of the worst industrial disasters in the world -- the Bhopal gas tragedy -- claimed thousands of lives, a local court found all the eight accused guilty of criminal negligence in the case.
Chief Justice Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari convicted all the eight accused of criminal negligence for the toxic leak from the Bhopal factory of Union Carbide India Limited (now defunct), after the arguments of the prosecution -- the Central Bureau of Investigation -- and defence of eight accused drew to a close in the 23-year-old trial on May 13.
The accused in the case include Keshub Mahindra, the then chairman of UCIL, Vijay Gokhle, then managing director of UCIL, Kishore Kamdar, then former vice president of UCIL-Mumbai, J Mukund, then former works manager of UCIL-Mumbai, S P Chouhary, then production manager of UCIL-Mumbai, K V Shetty, then plant superintendent of UCIL-Mumbai, SI Qureshi, the then production assistants of UCIL-Mumbai.
The accused have been tried under Indian Penal Code sections including Section 304 (A) (causing death by negligence, 336 (acts endangering life or personal safety of others) and 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others).
Warren Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide Corporation, USA has been absconding in the case.
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