ALMOST A quarter century after tragedy struck Madhya Pradesh's capital, a court in Bhopal today found eight person guilty of negligence in preventing one of the worst industrial disasters in the world in 1984. Thousands of people were killed and maimed after a poisonous gas from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal leaked and caused havoc in the city on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari convicted the eight accused under sections 304(A) (causing death by negligence) and 304-II (culpabale homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code.
The list of convicts, however, does not include the name of former chairman of Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, who has been absconding. The convicts include former UCIL chairman Keshub Mahindra, former vice-president functioning In charge, Kishor Kamdar, former works manager J. Mukund; and former Production manager A.P. Division, SP Choudhury.
The quantum of punishment will be pronounced later by the court.
On the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, huge quantities of methyl-iso-cyanate (MIC) spilled out from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal that killed thousands of people and left many maimed for life.
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