Bhopal, April 27: The Union Carbide today submitted that maintenance and safety norms were properly adhered to in the factory and refuted the charge that company had decided to shift the “plant in bad shape” prior to the 1984 tragedy.
Denying CBI charges that lack of maintenance and safety measures led to the world’s worst industrial disaster, defence counsel D Prasad told Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari, that all steps were adhered to keep the factory in a proper shape.
He said the experts from Union Carbide Corporation, USA, who visited the Union Carbide of India Limited (UCIL) plant following the death of a worker in 1982, did not find any fault in the unit.
Prasad said the UCIL was so much concerned on safety front that after the death of Mohammed Ashraf Khan, it reported the matter to the UCC, which carried out a safety audit.
–Agencies