By Padmini Arhant
On June 7, 2010, the verdict on the worst industrial gas leak in 1984, Bhopal, India was delivered by the state’s local court.
According to the several reports:
The ruling convicted the seven officials in senior management along with the employees of the former Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), the then subsidiary of the Union Carbide, USA with CEO Warren Anderson at that time.
Conviction included two years jail sentence and Rupees 100,000($2,100, €1,800) in fine.
Understandably, the judgment aroused sentiments among the victims’ devastated families and the survivors.
The NGO’s and other organizations representing the victims welcomed the long awaited process brought to national and international attention after pursuing the legal course for more than twenty five years.
However, they expressed huge disappointment in the limited sentencing and the exemption to the then Parent Company, Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson.
India’s request for the CEO’s extradition to face trial was rejected in June 2004 by the United States.
Mr. Warren Anderson was the CEO of Union Carbide U.S.A during the industrial disaster in 1984 and served the corporation until 1986.
Subsequently, Union Carbide in their statement delineated themselves from the gross industrial negligence that claimed scores of lives and continue to affect more, the living and the yet to be born evidenced in the birth defects as well as other illnesses diagnosed thus far.
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