The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Centre's curative plea for enhanced compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy from US-based firm Union Carbide Corporation, now owned by Dow Chemicals.
A group of 10 women survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy on Friday started an indefinite hunger strike demanding that the state government and the Centre provide correct figures of victims before the Supreme Court.
The Bhopal gas tragedy, touted as the world's worst industrial disaster, had claimed the lives of several thousand people after a deadly gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
New Delhi [India], Jan 29 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that a "different combination" of a five-judge bench will hear on February 11 a curative plea filed by the Central government seeking additional funds of Rs 7,844 crore from successor firms of US-based Union Carbide Corpora