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The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster , [ 3 ] over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly ...
The Bhopal gas tragedy is the one of the world's largest industrial disasters. According to government estimates, around 3,500 people died within days of the gas leak and more than 15,000 in the ...
Protest in Bhopal, India, 2010. A gas leak happened between the nights of December 2 and 3, 1984 in Bhopal. [4] This gas leak killed thousands of people. Some survivors developed cancer and other health related impairments. [4] A case was filed against the company which consisted of multiple players and negotiations.
Puri was the Police Commissioner of Bhopal on the night of the disaster. In a joint statement, authors said the portions objected to by Puri had been substantiated by Moti Singh, who then the Collector of Bhopal and to whom Puri reported during the event, in his own 2008 book called Unfolding The Betrayal Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy. [7]
Rachna Dhingra (born 3 September 1977) is a social activist working in Bhopal with the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, a gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in 1984 that has killed 20,000 people. She is also currently a member of the Aam Aadmi Party of India.
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India originated in the aftermath of oleum gas leak from Shriram Food and Fertilisers Ltd. complex at Delhi. This gas leak occurred soon after the infamous Bhopal gas leak and created a lot of panic in Delhi. One person died in the incident and a few were hospitalized.
Reports of safety lapses in the plant had started surfacing in 1981 — three years before the disaster — when a minor gas leak killed an employee inside the plant. Keswani first wrote about inadequate safety standards on 26 September 1982 with a title "Bachaiye huzoor is shahar ko bachaiye" ("Save Please, Save This City") in the small weekly ...
Abdul Jabbar Khan (1 June 1957 – 14 November 2019) [2] was an activist who fought for the victims of Bhopal Gas Disaster.Himself a victim of the gas leak, he devoted decades of his life, up until his death, towards seeking justice for the victims by fighting for their fair treatment and rehabilitation.