SC-BHOPAL 2LST

The CBI has sought reconsideration of the September
13, 1996 apex court judgement which had whittled down the
charge to 'causing death due to rash and negligent act'
against former Union Carbide India Chairman Keshub Mahindra
and six others.
Besides Mahindra, Vijay Gokhale, the then Managing
Director of UCIL, Kishore Kamdar, then Vice President, J N
Mukund, then Works Manager, S P Choudhary, then Production
Manager, K V Shetty, then Plant Superintendent and S I
Quereshi, then Production Assistant were convicted and
sentenced to two years' jail term by a trial court in
Bhopal on June 7.
The trial court verdict had sparked an outrage with
activists and political parties seeking an appeal against it,
maintaining the accused had been tried under a less stringent
provision of law for the tragedy that left over 15,000 people
dead and thousands maimed.
All the accused were tried under section 304A of
Indian Penal Code which attracts a maximum punishment of two
years' imprisonment for causing death by a rash and negligent
act.
The charge under section 304 part-II was diluted to
section 304A by a bench comprising the then Chief Justice A
M Ahmadi and Justice S B Majmudar.
The CBI, which described the case as one of the rarest
of rare cases, said the apex court should invoke its inherent
power in public interest to address and remedy errors apparent
on the face of record in the judgement and order of September
13, 1996. PTI RKS
KAB


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