Bhopal gas tragedy case : NGO hits out at ex-CJI
Bhopal, : Hitting out at former Chief Justice of India A H Ahmadi for a 1996 ruling in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, an NGO working for the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster today said the judge was as big a "villain" as former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson.
"There is not much difference between Ahmadi and Anderson and the two should be put in the same category of villains," Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangthan (BGPMUS) convenor Abdul Jabbar told PTI.
In a 1996 Supreme Court ruling in the gas tragedy case, the then apex court chief justice Ahmadi dropped charges under IPC Section 304-II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against Anderson and other accused in the case. Had the charges not been dropped, the accused could have been given an imprisonment of 10 years instead of only two years, awarded to them on Monday, Jabbar said.
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