The World - News from April 6, 1989
India’s Supreme Court said the Bhopal gas leak case is not over despite the $470-million compensation payment by Union Carbide Corp. The court said that Union Carbide is still under its jurisdiction as long as it is hearing petitions challenging the Feb. 14 settlement. Critics say Union Carbide paid too little and challenge the validity of the law under which the settlement was made. More than 3,400 people died in the central Indian city of Bhopal after poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide plant operated by an Indian subsidiary of the U.S. company Dec. 3, 1984.
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