Joint carbide gas incident
The Central Bureau of investigation in India after the disaster had 12 official allegations, including the Union Carbide (India) Co., Ltd. India 8 executives when he was chairman of Warren Anderson and company, two small companies and the company itself and under the. The 1 indicted India executives have been killed, the court 7 days to negligence causing death sentence the remaining 7 India nationals guilty, including the then Indian president Keshub Mahindra is more than 70 years old, many people. According to the charges, they will be sentenced to two years in prison at most. Survivors of the gas leak and their families and local activists gathered in front of the court 7 days ago, holding banners protesting the punishment of the perpetrators too light and late. Since the conviction was made in a local court in India, the defendant had the right to appeal to a higher court, and it was estimated that the process would continue for several years. After the disaster, Anderson, the American boss of the company, returned home soon. Now he lives in New York. In July last year, the court issued an arrest warrant for Anderson, but it has not been mentioned below.
After a lapse of 25 years, a India District Court on 1984 Bhopal gas leak to be long in coming judgment, Union Carbide (India) Co., Ltd. 7 India nationals day was held for negligence causing death, they will face up to two years in prison. On the same day, hundreds of survivors, family members and environmentalists gathered around the courthouse to protest the court's decision that the perpetrators of the worst industrial disaster in twentieth Century were too light and too late. In 1969, Union Carbine Co established a Union Carbide in central India state of Bhopal Beijiao city (India) Co. Ltd., specializing in the production of aldicarb, carbaryl pesticide drops. The chemicals used in these products is called a methyl isocyanate poisonous gas. The early morning of December 3, 1984, this factory storage explosive liquid methyl isocyanate the steel tank, 45 tons of poison gas leak quickly, directly killed more than 1.5 people, allegedly have caused more than 550 thousand people died and chemical poisoning related lung cancer, renal failure and liver disease.
