Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 326 · Decided 9 August 2012
Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sangathan & ORS. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 326 · [2012] 12 S.C.R. 947
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 50/1998
- Decided
- 9 August 2012
- Bench
- S.H. KAPADIA, A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Transferred to High Court
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21, 32
Headnote
B Constitution of India, 1950- Articles 21 and 32 - Bhopal C gas Leak Disaster - Public Interest Litigation - By victims of the disaster - Praying for free and proper medical assistance from the State and for direction to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) research studies which it had undertaken immediately after disaster and had D . subsequently abandoned - Court directed constitution of two expert Committees viz. 'Monitoring Committee' and the 'Advisory Committee' - Court also directed creation of Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre
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