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 …
Sparring between India and Pakistan over the 330 MW Kishanganga hydro-electric project in Jammu and Kashmir continues with Pakistan playing hardball over the constitution of a seven-member bench of International Court of Arbitration. In an indication of it, Pakistan has sidelined India
A month after a trial court convicted him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, the then non-executive chairman of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra has said he is not guilty.
Aditya Reddy No request for extradition can succeed without sufficient investigation against the fugitive, backed up with astute diplomacy While one can question the basis and motives of the US government's decision to reject India's request for Anderson's extradition in 2004, international law does not offer a remedy to a …
Five convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case including industrialist and former Chairman of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra today furnished bail bonds of Rs 1 lakh each in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) here. The documents were submitted by the convicts on the earlier …
V.R. Krishna Iyer Fali S. Nariman, one of India's finest contemporary lawyers and jurists, made many points with a bearing on the Bhopal case in his autobiography, When Memory Fades (2010), and he did it with grace and power. He has since said in an instructive and educative interview (Op-Ed …
Keshub MahindraThe sessions court here today granted conditional bail to former Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) chairman Keshub Mahindra who was convicted in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case. The court, however, reserved its order on the bail application of six other UCIL executives who were also convicted in the …
ON JUNE 7, a Bhopal city court held eight persons guilty in connection with the toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant more than 25 years ago that killed thousands and affected over 500,000 people. The court sentenced the guilty to two years in jail but the convicts, …
Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let them ‘nickel and dime’ his people in the oil spill case, a sessions court in Bhopal did precisely that with the victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. After 25 long years the court …
The US is less concerned about who's jailed and more about a huge compensation from BP Michael Pinto / June 29, 2010, 0:01 IST Why is it that we are determined to learn all the wrong lessons from the Bhopal tragedy? It is not just hysterical talk shows with witch-hunting …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai June 29, 2010, 1:06 IST Says real culprits of gas tragedy not punished. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has planned a three-pronged strategy to help the families of Bhopal gas disaster. Apart from pursuing legal action in the district court, high court and the apex …
Industrialist Keshub Mahindra and six other accussed convicted in the Bhopal gas tragedy case today challenged a Chief Judicial Magistrate's court verdict in a District and Sessions court here. The hearing on the application will take place in District and Sessions Judge Subhash Kakde's court tomorrow. On June 7, the …
Despite the Union Carbide Corporation being criminally liable for the Bhopal catastrophe, the government, though being the sole representative of the victims, colluded with the UCC and compromised the interests of the affected people. The UCC and its Indian subsidiary, the Union of India and the state of Madhya Pradesh …
The Centre has formulated a National Litigation Policy to reduce the cases pending in various courts in India under the National Legal Mission to reduce average pendency time from 15 years to 3 years. This was announced by Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice while announcing the National Litigation …
Conflicting recollections on Bhopal tragedy highlight need to make old government papers public Sanjaya Baru / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:54 IST I was on the last unaffected train out of Bhopal that night, or so I was told. It was the Dakshni Express from Hyderabad to Delhi. There …
