New Delhi: After 26 years of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Central Government on Friday, filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court for the compensation to be increased to Rs 5500 crores from Rs 750 crores set in 1989.
The Government said that the number of victims and the degree of environmental damage wasn't assessed correctly in the past.
The Government also sought payment from the company, Union Carbide asking the court to make The Dow Chemical's Union Carbide an ever ready party in the case.
The petition makes out three grounds for seeking compensation. The first being that in 1989, the death figures given were wrong, the second being that tax payers' money cannot be used to compensate the wrong that has been done to people by a private entity and being that this money needs to be utilised to clear the debris left after Bhopal catastrophe.
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