The Curative Order issued by the Supreme Court has made redress for victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy even more elusive.

The Curative Order issued by the Supreme Court has made redress for victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy even more elusive.

On March 14, the Supreme Court rejected the Centre’s curative petition for more money from Union Carbide Corporations’ successor companies to compensate victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which killed 3,000 people and caused significant damage to the environment. After a break of harmful methyl isocyanate gas from Association Read more

Calcutta High Court Directs State-Owned Corporation To Refund Overdrawn Amount Deducted From Group C Employee’s Retiral Benefits

The Calcutta High Court has recently issued an order directing the State Government to refund an overdrawn amount that was deducted from the retirement benefits of a Group ‘C’ employee. The amount had been recovered by the state-owned corporation after the employee’s retirement, and the court directed the corporation to Read more

The substantiation of injured witness has lesser evidentiary value and unless compelling reasons live, their statements aren’t to be discarded smoothly ”, a Bench of judges Sudhanshu Dulia and JB Pardiwala stated.

According to the learned counsel, the optical interpretation of the story lacks credibility and should be abandoned. Asgar Shaikh’s tale is doubtful because, despite his claims that he sustained a head injury during the assault, he did not seek medical attention and there is no documentation of the injury in a medical record, Read more

4 Acquits in a 1989 murder case were acquitted by the Supreme Court on the grounds that it was “possible that police set up a false case after killing a deceased in the process of arrest.”

In a 1989 murder case, the Supreme Court found that the evidence against four people was unreliable and that the entire prosecution case could have been fabricated by the police. As a result, the four people were found not guilty. On March 28, the Court of Justices B.R. Gavai, Vikram Read more