CBI denies delaying Bhopal gas tragedy case
By IANSMonday, April 26, 2010
BHOPAL - The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) director Ashwani Kumar Monday denied the charge of the Bhopal gas victims that the investigating agency had delayed or diluted the court case in the disaster.
Talking to a group of reporters during his visit to R.C.V.P. Noronha Academy of Administration here, Ashwani Kumar said that the CBI had thoroughly investigated the case and submitted its report within time. “It is now for the court to take a final decision”.
The tragedy occurred when the toxic leak from the Union Carbide Corporation’s now defunct pesticide plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital killed and maimed thousands of people on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.
The survivors of that tragedy last week charged the CBI with deliberately delaying the Bhopal gas disaster case by seeking repeated adjournments.
“The CBI perhaps wants that the case is delayed to such an extent that one day it is closed for ever. This is evident from the method of seeking repeated adjournments in the hearing by the investigating agency,” Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS) convenor Abdul Jabbar said.
