Union Carbide. | Photo Credit: PTI
The petition filed by groups for the rights of the victims of the catastrophe Bhopal, which claims that survivors with permanent, serious injuries and diseases were incorrectly classified under “temporary disabilities” and “minor injuries” and insufficiently compensated for hearing in the Supreme Court.
The petition filed by organizations such as the Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, called the Supreme Court to order the Center to order these “incorrect” victims to receive adequate compensation under the gas leak Act. compensation.
The center called the tragedy of gas leakage Bhopal “the largest industrial disaster in the world”. The government and the Supreme Court agreed to lose innocent lives as a result of fatal leakage of methyl isocynate (MIC) gas from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bopal, Madhya Pradesh, in December, in 1984 in 1984 in 1984.
The responsibility of the center
“The long history of a lawsuit, which is trying to get compensation for the US company Union Carbide Corporation (now part of the Dow Chemicals Corporation), ended with the release of the Supreme Court on the hospitals in July 2023, where it was clear that any lack of compensation to be paid to the victims.
The organizations have stated that they have data that show that survivors suffering from cancer and kidney failure due to the exposure to toxic gas were classified in the category “less/temporary injury”.
“All these cases ought to have been added as and permanent disability CATEGORY. Even a Far Back As in 1974, Union Carbide’s Internal Document, Titled MIC Plant Safety Considerations Report, Had Very Clearly Station That Inhalation of Mic Prompt Treatment ‘… This Petition Seeks to Enforce That Responsibility of the Union Government, Pointing Out and Certain Category of Cases in WHICH The Damages Awarded and Paid to Be Manifestly Unjust and arbitrary, ”she said.
The case was listed for hearing in front of the bench headed by the main judge of India Bravai 14 July. However, the bench did not pour due to the unavailability of the main judge. The status of the case shows another date of 18 July. The petitioners are represented by the head of the lawyer S. Muralidhar and the lawyer Prasanna S.
It focuses on the scope of the impact of the disaster on public health ten years later, the petition said that records of hospitals kept by the government show that “more than 30 years after the disaster of 95% of the population officially acknowledged that it was exposed to toxic gas that required visits to the hospital for their medical needs”.
“Data from the Central Government hospital show that the occurrence of heart disease, neurological disorders, gastro and kidney diseases, psychiatric disorders and other chronic diseases are very high among patients with gas. 59.6% suffer from pulmonary problems … In 2023, BMHRC visited 2 06 016 gas victims, ”the action presented.
Published – 17th July 2025 22:24
