New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Centre’s healing plea looking for an extra Rs 7,844 crore from the Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) successor companies to increase greater compensation to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gasoline tragedy that killed over 3,000 individuals and prompted environmental injury. A five-judge structure bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul mentioned there was no rationale by the Centre to rake up the problem 20 years after the settlement.
The high court docket mentioned {that a} sum of Rs 50 crore mendacity with the RBI for the victims shall be utilised by the Union of India to fulfill pending claims of victims.”We are unsatisfied with the Union of India for not furnishing any rationale for raking up this issue after two decades…We are of the view that curative petitions cannot be entertained,” the bench mentioned.
The bench additionally comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Abhay S Oka, Vikram Nath and J Okay Maheshwar had on January 12 reserved its verdict on the Centre’s healing plea. The Centre wished one other Rs 7,844 crore from the UCC’s successor companies over and above the USD 470 million (Rs 715 crore) it acquired from the American firm as a part of the settlement in 1989.
A healing petition is the final resort for a plaintiff after an opposed judgement has been delivered and the plea for its evaluation is rejected. The Centre had not filed a evaluation petition for rescinding the settlement which it now needs to be enhanced.
The UCC, now owned by Dow Chemicals, gave a compensation of Rs USD 470 million in 1989 after the poisonous methyl isocyanate gasoline leak from the Union Carbide manufacturing unit on the intervening evening of December 2 and three, 1984 killed over 3,000 individuals and affected 1.02 lakh extra.
