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Short changed? A petition filed by the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has prompted the Supreme Court (sc) to ask the Union government for an explanation. The discrepancy in the compensation amount due to the victims appears too huge to go unnoticed.

The plaintiffs' counsel, S Muralidhar, said the government had to give the victims Rs 1,360 crore from the total compensation of us $470 million (Rs 2,100 crore) that the Union Carbide company gave them for the gas leak from its plant in Bhopal. A chemical and polymers firm in the us, Union Carbide had deposited the compensation amount with the Reserve Bank of India (rbi) in March 1989. Today, the rbi claims that only Rs 470 crore is due while the office of the Bhopal Welfare Commissioner

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