Bhopal gas tragedy: Amnesty demands Dow appear in court

October 31, 2014 12:20

In July, this year, Amnesty International called on the Dow Chemical Company to appear before a Bhopal court this week to explain why its subsidiary Union Carbide Company repeatedly ignored summons in the 1984 gas leak case.

The industrial accident, the worst in Indian history, led to the leak of poisonous methyl isocyanate, claiming thousands of lives in the Madhya Pradesh capital. Hundreds of thousands of others had suffered chronic health problems.

The toxic leak has led to environmental contamination at the former plant site, claim activists.

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