An Indian court ordered Union Carbide Corp....
An Indian court ordered Union Carbide Corp. not to reach individual settlements on compensation for victims of the Bhopal gas disaster. Judge M. W. Deo, who is trying the Indian government’s $3.3-billion claim for compensation on behalf of the victims, issued an interim order restraining the U.S. company from making individual deals. About 2,500 people were killed and more than 200,000 injured in December, 1984, when poison gas leaked from Carbide’s pesticides plant at Bhopal in central India. It was the world’s biggest industrial disaster.
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