Bhopal: On the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, families of the victims and activists have hold a protest march in Bhopal on Friday and some of them will meet Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Agitated over not getting adequate relief even after 26 years of the tragedy, families of the victims have also threatened to go on a rail roko protest on Saturday.
The quest for justice for Bhopal gas tragedy victims has hit a dead end as the Supreme Court in May last year rejected the CBI's curative petition seeking a stay on its 1996 judgment in the case and restoration of stringent charges against the accused.
In its plea, CBI had sought restoration of stringent charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder instead of death caused due to negligence against the accused in the world's worst industrial disaster that left over 15,000 people dead and thousands maimed.
The apex court said it was not satisfied with the CBI and Madhya Pradesh government's reasons for filing the curative petition after a lapse of 14 years.
Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, from the United States.
However, a Delhi court in March last year allowed the CBI to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, from the United States.
Anderson, 90, never faced trial in connection with the world's worst industrial disaster over 26 years ago and was declared a proclaimed offender by the court of Bhopal chief judicial magistrate in 1992 after he jumped bail, which he had secured on December 7, 1984 following his arrest.
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