Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 222 · Decided 14 March 2023
Union of India & ORS. v. M/S. Union Carbide Corporation & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 222 · [2023] 2 S.C.R. 881
- Case number
- CURATIVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 345/2010
- Decided
- 14 March 2023
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, SANJIV KHANNA, ABHAY S. OKA, VIKRAM NATH, J.K. MAHESHWARI (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
Headnote
Bhopal Gas Tragedy Case - Curative petitions filed by the Union of India seeking increase in the settlement amount - Held: Present petitions were filed by the Union of India 19 years post the settlement seeking to reopen the same - The very settlement was the need to provide immediate succour to the victims through medical relief, rehabilitation measures etc. - Without a settlement, immediate funds would not have been available for the victims - Finality was reached at an early stage by way of the settlement -
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