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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | US court blow to Bhopal survivors

US court blow to Bhopal survivors

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published Published on Jun 29, 2012   modified Modified on Jun 29, 2012
-The Telegraph
 
A US court has ruled that neither Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims arising out of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, dismaying survivors and the NGOs fighting for justice.

Manhattan district judge John Keena on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Bhopal survivor Janki Bai Sahu and others accusing the UCC of causing soil and water pollution around the Bhopal plant.

Keena ruled that it was Union Carbide India Ltd and not parent company UCC that was responsible for the generation and disposal of the waste that polluted the water, and that the liability rested with the state government.

UCC no longer exists but the Bhopal survivors have been trying to pin the liability on Dow Chemicals, which bought the UCC in 1999 and is a sponsor of the London Olympics.

But the verdict automatically exempts Dow of any liability too, disheartening the survivors who have been planning a “Bhopal Olympics” in July with children disabled from birth because of the gas leak’s persisting effects.

In 1989, Union Carbide had paid a $470m compensation to the survivors through the Indian government, and Dow insists that the 1989 settlement resolved all existing and future claims against the company. Currently, no compensation case relating to the disaster is pending in Indian courts.

Rachana Dhingra, an activist representing the gas survivors, said the verdict would be appealed at a higher US court. “We hope something positive will come out this time,” she said.

But Abdul Jabbar, convener of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan, said: “It seems the end of all our hopes for justice.”

The Telegraph, 29 June, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120629/jsp/nation/story_15670661.jsp#.T-0L0BczD-U


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