The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to of toxic chemical waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy site, being carried out at a private disposal company in Pithampur town of Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing a plea by a social activist demanding that the Supreme Court should urgently hear a petition challenging a Madhya Pradesh High Court order from March 27.
The High Court had then granted the state government of the waste collected from Bhopal’s Union Carbide factory by incinerating it at the designated facility in Dhar.
The activist’s counsel on Wednesday requested that the case be , pointing out that the 72-day period would end on June 8, the Hindustan Times reported.
However, the Supreme Court refused to list the matter urgently, or stay the High Court order, Live Law reported. The case will be heard after the court vacation
Sharma, one of the judges who heard the case on Wednesday, said: “For how many years we are fighting with that waste? [I know because] it's from my state.”
He was further quoted as saying by Live Law: “You have made all attempts...all these NGOs, all these so-called social activists...High Court is monitoring it...I know it for certain.”
The judge said that the...
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