Bhopal: India wants compensation doubled

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

India is seeking to more than double to $1.1bn (£700m) the compensation paid by a US chemical company for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

The attorney general's office has filed a case at the Supreme Court to increase the $470m settlement reached in 1989.

The petition coincides with the 26th anniversary of the disaster.

Thousands of people died after the leak from Union Carbide's plant in the Madhya Pradesh state capital.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11911828

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Original BBC headline to link reads : US firm faces India disaster claim

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[Nihil]

2. Spot the difference in attitudes ...

... compared to people demanding compensation from BP for zero third-party deaths ...

Yet more proof that thousands of dead "foreign people" just don't count
when balanced against a loss of profits incurred by Americans ...?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. there was a deleted subthread on this topic? oh du, you never fail to disappoint.

not only were there huge loss of life in bhopal. india convicted the man responsible, who escaped back to america, and lives in the hamptons.