Supreme Court · 1989 INSC 60 · Decided 15 February 1989
Union Carbide Corporation v. Union of India and Others, ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1989 INSC 60 · [1989] 1 S.C.R. 730
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3187/1988
- Decided
- 15 February 1989
- Bench
- R.S. PATHAK, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, RANGANATH MISRA, M.N. VENKATACHALIAH, N.D. OJHA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Having carefully considered the facts and circumstances of the case, the mass of data placed before It, the material relatin1; to the proceedings in the Courts in the U.S.A., the offers and counter-offers made between the parties at different stages during the issues of law and fact raised before it: s1nd the submissions made thereon, and in particular, the enormity ~if human suffering occasioned by the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster and the pressing urgency to provide Immediate and substantial relief to victims of the disaster, the Court was of opinion
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