The Supreme Court on March 14 denied the Centre’s plea for an additional Rs 7,844 crore in compensation from Union Carbide for 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy .
1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy
It is mentioned the Centre submitted a curative petition to the successor companies of Union Carbide Company requesting additional compensation for the victims.
In this regard, a five-judge constitutional bench presided over by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul stated the Centre had no justification to bring up the matter two decades after the settlement.
“We are dissatisfied with the Union of India for failing to provide a justification for raising this issue after twenty years. We are of the opinion that curative petitions cannot be accepted”, the bench further added.