Supreme Court · 1989 INSC 179 · Decided 4 May 1989
Union Carbide Corporation v. Union of India ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1989 INSC 179 · [1989] 3 S.C.R. 128
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3187/1988
- Decided
- 4 May 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
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 137
Headnote
CARBIDE CORPORATION v. UNION OF INDIA ETC. MAY 4, 1989 [R.S. PATHAK, CJ, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, RANGANATH MISRA, M.N. VENKATACHALIAH AND N.D. OJHA, JJ.) Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster (Registration and Processing of claims) Act, 1985: Court' giving reasons for the overall settlement order dated February the escape of deadly chemical fumes from the appellant's factory was a great industrial disaster and it took an immediate toll of 2600 human lives and left tens of thousands of inno- 0 cent citizens of Bhopal physically affected in various ways. As per the _ figures furnished by the Union of
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