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The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, while hearing the curative petition filed against Union Carbide Corporation (now Dow Chemicals) seeking additional compensation to the victims of the Bhopal Gas tragedy, asked the Union government why there is Rs 50 crore lying undisbursed.
The court asked when Union Carbide had already paid over $ 470 million to the Bhopal gas tragedy victims then how the settlement could be reopened.
A five-judge bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul also asked the Attorney General (AG) R Venkataramani, representing the Centre, said that if the settlement arrived at a particular stage of
