[1]The Madhya Pradesh government will take steps to appeal against the Supreme Court judgment, which diluted the charge in the criminal case arising out of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster.
The state government will also file an appeal in the sessions court against the June 7 order of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in the Carbide case. This was decided at a meeting presided over by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at the Mantralaya here on Thursday.
At the meeting, the recommendations of the experts committee appointed by the state government were taken up for consideration and it was decided to ask the government of India to direct the CBI to file supplementary charges linked with the gas disaster in the trial court. In view of the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster Act, which gives all powers to the government of India to represent the gas victims, the chief minister said that the gas victims have suffered “historic injustice”.
The chief minister said that he would be writing to the Prime Minister to declare the remaining 20 municipal wards of the city as gas affected. The government of India will also be told to provide best medical treatment to the gas victims through the hospital being run hereby the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT). The state government has also decided to study the trust deed under which the BMHT has been formed.
On returning from his ten day Europe tour, the chief minister told mediapersons that it was not the weakness of the system but individuals who were behind the release of the former chief of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson.
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