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Bhopal Gas Leak Act Essay

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Soon after the tragedy in Bhopal, legal proceedings had started that involved the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), the United States, the Indian government, local Bhopal authorities and the victims. The Bhopal Gas Leak Act was passed by the Government of India in March 1985 (Chronology, 2001) that made the Indian government, a representative of the victims of the tragic event that took place in Bhopal. With this force, the Government of India filed a compensation case for the damages against the UCC in the district court of United States. Other than this, it also had a major responsibility of registering the requests of every victim of Bhopal gas leak. The Indian government set up different inquiry commissions to find out the reasons behind the gas leak. On the other hand, the UCC also started with their investigations to find the cause of the gas leak. In March 1985, the UCC declared that the gas leak was due to ‘an act of sabotage’ by a Sikh terrorist. After that, they said that it was the doing of a disgruntled worker.
In April 1985, the Federal District Court judge John.F.Keenan proposed that the UCC needed to provide between $5 million and $10 million without any …show more content…

In the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, the UCC claimed that the judge who passed the order was not authorised under the Indian Civil Penal Code. In April 1988, Justice S.K.Seth of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh justified that the UCC was responsible for the disaster in Bhopal but decreased the compensation amount to $2.5 billion (The Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 2002). The UCC made an appeal to the Supreme Court of India against the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. It said that “No court that we know of in India or elsewhere in the world has the previously ordered interim compensation where there is no proof of damages or where liability is strongly

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