PUCL STRONGLY DEPLORES POLICE NOTICE FOR CANCELLING MEETING ON KASHMIR AT GPF, DELHI

The meeting was to be held inside the auditorium of the GPF and no permission is required to hold an indoor public meeting. There is no such law.   If the police suspected any disturbance, it could have taken adequate measures to control the law and order situation. Large number of indoor public meetings are held in Delhi on various burning issues and there is no requirement to take permission.

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SC’s dismissal of Bhopal gas disaster curative petition is a judicial assault on the constitutional and legal rights of Bhopal survivors

“We refuse to accept the injustice delivered by the Supreme Court today.” said Nawab Khan, President of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha.   “We fought and won against the injustice of the settlement of 1989 and we will resume our fight again. We will fight in the court and we will fight on the streets till justice is done in the World’s worst corporate massacre.” he said.

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Bhopal gas survivors start indefinite waterless fast for additional compensation

Addressing a press conference, leaders of the five survivors’ organizations leading the Satyagraha said that the Bhopal survivors will be denied proper compensation once again if the central and state governments do not revise figures of death and extent of injuries in the soon to be heard Curative Petition for additional compensation from Union Carbide and its owner Dow Chemical.

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