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NGO to Move HC against Bhopal Gas Tragedy Verdict

Irked over the verdict in Bhopal gas tragedy case, an NGO working for the victims of world’s worst industrial disaster has said that it will move Madhya Pradesh High Court challenging the decision and will also meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Law Minister Veerappa Moily in the regard, said media reports.

“We are going to challenge the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s order in the Madhya Pradesh High Court. We want that the seven convicts should be tried under Section 304-II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and other tough sections of IPC and punished severely for more than 30,000 deaths,” Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS) Convenor Abdul Jabbar was quoted as saying while talking to reporters.

“We are waiting for the copy of the CJM’s order,” he was quoted as saying.

He welcome Moily’s statement that ‘justice has been buried’ in the case and said that they would soon call on the law minister and the prime minister to ensure punishment to convicts under tough charges, reports said.

“We will ask Singh and Moily to set up a commission to look into the gas tragedy case and set up a special cell for a speedy trial,” he was quoted as saying.

“We are unhappy with the prosecution agency, CBI, which has failed to bring to India, Warren Anderson, the then chairman of Union Carbide Corporation, USA to face trial,” Jabbar was quoted as saying.

(Based on internet reports)

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