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Madhya Pradesh Govt to appeal against Bhopal gas tragedy verdict | Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday announced that his government has decided to file an appeal against the verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. Addressing media here, Chouhan said the State Cabinet has also
decided to constitute a committee to study the legal aspects before going in for
the appeal. He said the much-awaited verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case was
"disappointing." Chouhan said the Government would urge the court to increase
the sentence of the convicts. After over 25 years after the world's worst industrial
disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court had on Monday convicted
all the seven persons, including former Union Carbide Chairman Keshub Mahindra,
in the case and awarded them a maximum of two years imprisonment. However, 89-year-old
Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation of USA, who lives
in the United States, appeared to have gone scot free for the present as he is
still an absconder and did not subject himself to trial. There was no word about
him in the judgment delivered by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari 23 years
after the trial commenced. The quantum of punishment given to the accused as well
as Anderson escaping the judicial process has raised an outcry in the country. |
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