A day after the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Bhopal gave its verdict in the 1984 gas disaster case, as many as 5,000 survivors of the tragedy today held a candlelight vigil to protest ‘benign justice’ in the case.
This vigil was held at Bhopal’s Sadbhavna Square near the closed factory of Union Carbide India Ltd.
Yesterday’s judgment came as a blow to the residents of the gas-affected localities, where people were shocked at Warren Anderson, considered a prime suspect, being let off. Anderson, the chairman of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation when the factory spewed lethal methyl isocyanate in December 1984, had been declared fugitive from law.
