The official number of deaths from what has come to be known as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, among the world’s worst industrial disasters ever, was 2,259 but activists estimate the number could be well over 20,000, maybe double that.
The leakage of methyl isocyanate, a toxic gas, from pesticide plant of Union Carbide on the intervening night of Dec 2 and 3, 1984, had killed over 3,000 people.
New Delhi, May 11 : In an apparent setback to the campaign for those seeking stringent punishment for the accused in the Bhopal gas disaster, the Supreme Court today dismissed CBI's curative petition against an
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