Who is behind Union Carbide India Limited?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
Sourced links that no one presents as their own account, as recorded so far. Others may exist.
Led by
- Keshub Mahindra chair of 1984 chairman Scholarship & press 12
Owners
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Government of India
owns a stake in
1984
22%, as of 2 Dec 1984
Primary record
34
The court says “owned or controlled by”; Union Carbide says the other holders included Indian financial institutions and private investors.
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Union Carbide Corporation
owns a stake in
1984
50.9%, as of 2 Dec 1984
Primary record
35
UCC says it sold the whole stake in November 1994.
Going further
Proof 5 sources
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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);
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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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In re Union Carbide Corporation Gas Plant Disaster at Bhopal, India in December, 1984, 809 F.2d 195 (2d Cir. 1987) (copy posted by Union Carbide), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 14 Jan 1987.
Primary record
Fifty and nine-tenths percent of its stock is owned by UCC, 22% is owned or controlled by the government of India, and the balance is held by approximately 23,500 Indian citizens.
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The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review, Environmental Health (BioMed Central), 2005.
Scholarship & press
The government itself had a 22% stake in the company's subsidiary, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)
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Union of India v. Union Carbide Corporation, curative petitions, order of 14 March 2023 (LiveLaw copy of the order), Supreme Court of India (text via LiveLaw), 14 Mar 2023.
Primary record
UCC was a New York based corporation which owned 50.9% stock in UCIL at the time of the tragedy.
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