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MP Govt.
not entitled to challenge Bhopal verdict
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 05:23:17 PM,
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New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh
government's plan to challenge the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict in
high court is likely to come a cropper as the Supreme Court has held
that a state cannot file an appeal in a case probed by the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The CBI was tasked with nvestigating the criminal culpability of
various Union Carbide officials into the tragedy, within days of a
police complaint being lodged at the city's Hanuman Ganj police
station Dec 3, 1984.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Wednesday told
reporters in Bhopal: "Since the verdict is disappointing, we have
decided to file an appeal to get justice for the victims and to get
the sentence of the convicts increased."
He was reacting to the widespread outrage over the trial court
awarding two-year jail terms each to seven Union Carbide officials
held guilty of criminal negligence in the Carbide pesticide plant,
which caused leakage of poisonous gas that killed over 3,500
instantly and thousands later.
"Since people of Bhopal are victims in this case and they are
represented by the state government, we have decided to file an
appeal to get justice for the victims," Chouhan said.
He added that his government will constitute a committee to study
the legal aspects before going in for an appeal.
However, there seems to be a legal hitch in his plan. A Supreme
Court bench headed by former chief justice K.G. Balakrishnan April 1
ruled that a state government was not entitled to go in an appeal
against a judgment of a case probed by the CBI.
The bench gave its ruling on a petition of former Bihar chief
minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri against a Patna High Court
decision to admit an appeal of the Nitish Kumar-led state government
against their acquittal in a corruption case the CBI had probed.
The apex court bench, which also included Justice R.M. Lodha and
Justice B.S. Chauhan, ruled that "the appeal by the state government
presented before Patna High Court is rejected as not maintainable."
The apex court held that only the central government was empowered
to go in an appeal against a trial court verdict in cases
investigated by an agency set up under a central act.
"A case in which the offence has been investigated by the Delhi
Special Police Establishment (CBI), or by another agency empowered
to make investigation into an offence under any central act, only
the central government may direct the public prosecutor to present
an appeal to the high court against the sentence on the ground of
its inadequacy," the bench said.
The trial court verdict here Monday came 25 years after the Bhopal
Union carbide plant gas leak on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, spelt
one of the worst industrial disasters in the world. Besides jail
terms, the court slapped a fine of Rs.100,000 on the seven
officials, including Keshub Mahindra who then headed the Union
Carbide India Ltd (UCIL).
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