NEW DELHI: Government on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking enhancement of compensation from 750 crore rupees to 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. More than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide factory in this tragedy. The petition filed by the centre in the capacity of legal guardian of the victims of the world’s largest industrial disaster has sought payment of additional damages from concerned parties including Union Carbide Corporation and Dow Chemicals Company. The curative petition settled by Attorney General G E Vahanvati has contended that the figure of 750 crore rupees was arrived by the apex court on "incorrect and wrong assumption of facts and data in the impugned judgments".
