New Delhi:
The Group of Minister (GoM) looking into the Bhopal gas tragedy case has been reconstituted, sources have told NDTV.
According to sources, Arjun Singh has been replaced as the chief of GoM on Bhopal. It will now be headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will also be part of the GoM.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to file an appeal against the "disappointing" verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
"The BJP government in the state will constitute a committee to study the legal aspects before going in for the appeal," Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.
More than 25 years after the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court had on
Monday convicted all the seven persons, including former Union Carbide Chairman Keshub Mahindra, in the case and awarded them a maximum of two years imprisonment.
However, 89-year-old Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation of USA, who lives in the United States, appeared to have gone scot free for the present as he is still an absconder and did not subject himself to trial.
There was no word about him in the judgement delivered by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari.
The quantum of punishment given to the accused as well as Anderson escaping the judicial process has raised an outcry in the country.
According to sources, Arjun Singh has been replaced as the chief of GoM on Bhopal. It will now be headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will also be part of the GoM.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to file an appeal against the "disappointing" verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
"The BJP government in the state will constitute a committee to study the legal aspects before going in for the appeal," Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.
More than 25 years after the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court had on
Monday convicted all the seven persons, including former Union Carbide Chairman Keshub Mahindra, in the case and awarded them a maximum of two years imprisonment.
However, 89-year-old Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation of USA, who lives in the United States, appeared to have gone scot free for the present as he is still an absconder and did not subject himself to trial.
There was no word about him in the judgement delivered by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari.
The quantum of punishment given to the accused as well as Anderson escaping the judicial process has raised an outcry in the country.
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