New Delhi, April 13: The Supreme Court today questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
A five-judge special bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia raised the question on delay and asked the CBI as to why it had not filed the review petition during all these years.
Attorney General G E Vahanvati, appearing for the CBI said, “I don’t know why it was not filed by the CBI but a review petition was filed in the case by someone else and it was dismissed.”
He said there was a series of illegal omissions on the part of the accused from 1982 onward which led to that disaster.
–PTI