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Article

23 Jul 2013

Author:
Amnesty International

India: Court decision requires Dow Chemical to respond to Bhopal gas tragedy [India]

…The Dow Chemical Company...summonsed to appear before a court in Bhopal, India…to explain why its wholly owned subsidiary, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), has repeatedly ignored court summons in the ongoing criminal case concerning the 1984 Bhopal disaster, where UCC is accused of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder… …The summoning of Dow is potentially a giant step towards establishing the criminal liability of Union Carbide Corporation.

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India: Court order for Dow to appear, proposed cleanup plan are “ray of hope” for survivors of Bhopal gas disaster that killed over 22,000, says Amnesty

Union Carbide/Dow lawsuit (re Bhopal, filed in India)