Bhopal Gas Tragedy Case: Mahindra, Seven Others Convicted
Hearing Bhopal gas tragedy case, a local court has convicted all the eight accused including former Union Carbide Chairman Keshub Mahindra, said media reports.
Announcing the judgement in a packed court room, chief judicial magistrate Mohan P Tiwari convicted 85-year-old Mahindra and seven others in the case pertaining to leakage of deadly methyl isocyanate gas in the intervening night of Dec 2 and 3, 1984, which left more than 15,000 people dead, reports said.
Reports said that all the accused were held guilty under Sections 304 – A (causing death by negligence), 304 – II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 336, 337 and 338 (gross negligence) of the Indian Penal Code.
Court verdict, however, has no word on Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation of the US, who was proclaimed an absconder after he didn’t subject himself to trail in the case, said reports.
Others found guilty are Vijay Gokhle, the then Managing Director of UCIL, Kishore Kamdar, the then Vice President, JN Mukund, the then Works Manager, SP Choudhary, the then Production Manager, KV Shetty, the then Plant Superintendent and SI Quershi, the then Production Assistant, said reports.
The court is likely to announce quantum of punishment to convicts later, reports said.
(Based on internet reports)
