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Keshub Mahindra

Chairman of Union Carbide India Ltd. in 1984. Convicted in 2010 by a Bhopal court of causing death by negligence.

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State v. Mahindra and others (Crime No. 1104 of 1984)

  1. 7 Jun 2010 Convicted by Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Bhopal: causing death by negligence and endangering life; two years’ imprisonment; the convicts were bailed 1234Appeals and revisions were pending in the Sessions Court in May 2011. He died on 12 April 2023; his obituary says he and the others “ultimately did not serve prison time”. The Supreme Court counts seven convicted people and the company UCIL; the BBC and PTI say eight were convicted.

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  • Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Bhopal 7 Jun 2010 causing death by negligence and endangering life; two years’ imprisonment; the convicts were bailed Primary record 1234

    Appeals and revisions were pending in the Sessions Court in May 2011. He died on 12 April 2023; his obituary says he and the others “ultimately did not serve prison time”. The Supreme Court counts seven convicted people and the company UCIL; the BBC and PTI say eight were convicted.

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  1. 1984 Keshub Mahindra chair of Union Carbide India Limited
  2. 7 Jun 2010 Keshub Mahindra convicted by Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Bhopal
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  1. Bhopal trial: Eight convicted over India gas disaster, BBC News, 7 Jun 2010. Scholarship & press
    The eight convicted on Monday were Keshub Mahindra, the chairman of the Indian arm of the Union Carbide (UCIL);
  2. C.B.I. v. Keshub Mahindra, curative petitions (Criminal) 39-42 of 2010, order of 11 May 2011, Supreme Court of India, 11 May 2011. Primary record
    convicting accused Nos. 2 to 5, 7 to 9 and 12 under Sections 304A, 336, 337, 338 read with Section 35 IPC and sentencing them to two years’ imprisonment.
  3. Keshub asks where is proof against him. And he’s right., Governance Now, 7 Jul 2010. Scholarship & press
    “Where are the evidences,” he asks.
  4. Keshub Mahindra, Wharton grad and chairman of multinational Indian corporation, has died at 99, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 Apr 2023. Scholarship & press
    Mr. Mahindra and others were sentenced to two years in prison in 2010 for their roles, but ultimately did not serve prison time.
  5. Chronology of events in Bhopal gas tragedy case, Press Trust of India (via ThePrint), 14 Mar 2023. Scholarship & press
    Dec 7, 1984: Police arrest Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren M Anderson, Chairman of UCIL Keshub Mahindra and Managing Director of UCIL Vijay Prabhakar Gokhle.
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