HOUSTON: Criminal trespass charges have been dropped against four people, including two survivors of the world’s worst chemical disaster, arrested during a protest at Union Carbide Corp’s annual meeting.
The four were arrested April 26 trying to enter a hotel to give Union Carbide shareholders copies of a report on the 1984 chemical leak at Bhopal India, blamed for 2,889 deaths and more than 270,000 injuries.
The men were arrested after they refused requests to leave the report outside while they attended the meeting. Officials of the Hyatt Regency West said advance permission was required before materials could be distributed inside the hotel. 5 Arrested were too survivors of
the Bhopal Gas leak, Chander Singh Nimgule, 49, and Sunil Kumar Rajput, 17, and translator Satinath Sarangi, 34, and Richard Abraham, 39, director of the Texas division of the National Toxics Campaign and of Texas United.
Nimgule and Rajput were injured in the leak and members of their families died in it.
Charges were dropped at the request of hotel management because Union Carbide made a request to them.
Dan Amato, general manager of Hyatt Regency West, said the charges were dropped because there was “nothing else to gain by pressing charges.”
Article extracted from this publication >> May 12, 1989
