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Shortly after midnight, methyl isocyanate gas leaked

from a tank at the Union Carbide Bhopal Plant.

FIR registered against Union Carbide India Limitedinvoking 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting tomurder).



Warren Anderson, Chairman of Union Carbide arrested

on arrival in Bhopal. Bailed out within 6 hours, flown toDelhi in state government aircraft, and flies out of Delhi, never to return.



CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) takes charge of

Bhopal Case.



Indian Government passes Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster

(Processing of Claims) Act acquiring exclusive claim torepresent victims.



Government announces scheme for registering

individual claims arising out of disaster ± no surveysdone, chaos ensues ± more than 6 lakh claims received



Government files civil suit at district judge, Bhopal

claiming Rs. 3900 ($3 billion) compensation andpunitive damages.



District judge proposes Rs. 350 crores interim

compensation. Union Carbide appeals against this inMP (Madhya Pradesh ) high court which reduces it toRs. 250 crores.

CBI Files criminal charge-sheet against 12 accused.



Both parties appeal against this in the Supreme Court.



Under Supreme Court sanction, Carbide and

government reach settlement. Carbide to pay Rs. 705crores ($470 million). All civil and criminal casesdropped.



Supreme Court accepts petition to reopen criminal

cases against Bhopal accused.



Bhopal Court issues non-bailable warrant against

Anderson.



Supreme Court reduces criminal charges from section

304, culpable homicide (max punishment 10 years) tosection 304 A, causing death by negligence (maxpunishment 2 years).



Union Carbide bought by Dow Chemical Company.

Victims apply to get Dow to appear in criminal cases.



Supreme Court accepts that number of gas victims is

5.73 lakhs and not 1 lakh, as assumes in 1989. Victimsfile for increase in compensation.

SC order ICMR to review and set out new agenda forresearch on effects of gas on victims. Committee hasmet just 3 times.



Government asks for extradition of Warren Anderson.

CJM Bhopal asks Dow to appear in court, Dow ChemicalInternational, Mumbai says it is not connected to DowUSA.

Within weeks, Madhya Pradesh high court stays Bhopal

court¶s notice.



SC rejects plea for increase in compensation saying

welfare commissioner, Bhopal will determine the facts.



101,000 victims petition welfare commissioner, Bhopal

for paying compensation as per value of dollar on1989.



Welfare commissioner rejects petition. Victims file writ

in Madhya Pradesh HC.



Bhopal Court convicts eight accused under Section 304

A (Accused are already out on bail).



7th June 2010 will go down as yet another black day in

the lives of Bhopal gas disaster.1. They had to suffer the indignity of becoming the

victims of world¶s worst Industrial disaster.2. Were re-victimized by the unjust Bhopal

Settlement of 14 Feb 1989.

3. Now they are confounded by a verdict that haspractically let off eight accused in the case.

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