The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to file a curative petition and also request the Union government/CBI to file a curative petition, before the Supreme Court to review its earlier decision to convert the charge against the accused in the carbide case from section 304-II IPC to Section 304 A IPC in 1996.

Madhya Pradesh’s ruling BJP is once again locked in a tussle with activist groups on whether the relief package for 1984 gas disaster victims should be extended to all 56 municipal wards of the city or over a more precisely defined area.

The Madhya Pradesh minister for Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation, Babulal Gaur said here on Tuesday that the government of India has never been serious on the issue of Bhopal gas disaster.

The Madhya Pradesh government came on the backfoot on Tuesday and issued orders to remove Swaraj Puri as member of grievance redressal authority (Madhya Pradesh Narmada projects) after the media questioned his post retirement appointment pointing out that he was the Bhopal superintendent of police and had driven

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Sunderlal Patwa said here on Monday that senior Congress leader Arjun Singh should clarify who had called him up from Delhi and what was he told immediately after the arrest of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson in the state capital on December 7, 1984. Mr Patwa was

There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to America when the city was struck by the worst industrial catastrophe in December 1984.

Hazira Bi lives in house no.384 in Jai Prakash Colony.

With more revelations surfacing each day about former Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson’s release within hours of his arrest after the 1984 gas disaster, senior police officers here poin

The legal wrangle to fix criminal liability for the Union Carbide gas disaster took a new turn on Friday with a fresh petition being filed in the district court here against the then district collector and superintendent of police on the charge that they had helped former Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson in leaving Bhopal by a state government aircraft within hours of his arrest on December 7, 1984.

Three days after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the police here had released the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and two others on bail by “deleting” in the complaint a stringent charge under the IPC against them, trial court sources said on Friday.