BHOPAL, (PTI) The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal ordered attachment of dividends for over Rs 600 million (US Dollar 2:3 million) on 50.9 per cent shares of the Union Carbide Corporation in the Union Carbide India Limited, earlier attached by the court.
The multi-national chemical company is the owner of a chemical plant in Bhopal, capital of ‘central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh that spewed out poison gas which killed more than 3,800 persons in early December, 1984.
The attachment of the dividends was ordered by the magistrate, Gulab Chand Sharma, on an application filed by US Prasad, who produced a list of dividends paid by the company since 1984.
Earlier the Central Bureau of Investigations informed the court that investigations were still pending into the Bhopal Gas disaster of December two/three 1984.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 5, 1992
