New Delhi: India’s Supreme Court has rejected a request to re-open the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster case in order to impose harsher sentences on the accused.
Prosecutors made the appeal following last June’s verdict handing down brief jail sentences to seven former managers at the Union Carbide plant.
The accused were prosecuted for the offence of negligence.
The Indian government says some 3,500 people died within days of the gas leak – with more than 15,000 since then.
Campaigners put the death toll as high as 25,000 and say the effects of the leak continue to this day.
In August, prosecutors challenged the verdict and sought restoration of stringent charges of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” against the accused.
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