7 Indians, who were executives of Union Carbide, and were sentenced to two years in jail for their role in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984 could soon be looking at tougher charges.
The Supreme Court has reopened the Bhopal case on the basis of a curative petition filed by the CBI which asks the court to reconsider its earlier decision, in 1996, in which it diluted charges against former Union Carbide India Chairman Keshub Mahindra and 6 others from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to criminal negligence.
The former Carbide men will now have to answer why the charges against them should not be beefed up.
The top court was hearing a curative petition filed by the CBI which wanted a reconsideration of the 1996 judgement which diluted charges against former Union Carbide India Chairman Keshub Mahindra and 6 others. The petition is silent on Warren Anderson, the then Union Carbibe President.
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