Over 38 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Supreme Court dealt a setback to the victims by rejecting the Union government's petition.
The top court on 14 March 2023 rejected the government's curative petition for higher compensation of ₹7,844 crore from the successor firms of Union Carbide Corporation.
A 5-judge bench said that there was no rationale for the Centre to rake up the issue two decades after the settlement.
In December 1984, a toxic gas leak killed over 3,000 people and affected more than 1 lakh others.
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