New Delhi:
The eight people convicted today for the world's worst industrial disaster include:
Former Union Carbide Chairman Keshub Mahindra
Vijay Gokhle, then Managing Director of Union Carbide
Kishore Kamdar, then Vice-President of Union Carbide
J Mukund, then Works Manager, Union Carbide
R.B.Roy Chowdhury, Asstt. Works Manager, UCIL, Bhopal (now deceased)
S.P.Choudhury, then Production Manager of UCIL, Bhopal
K.V.Shetty, then Plant Superintendent, UCIL, Bhopal
Shakeel Qureshi, then Production Assistant, UCIL, Bhopal
The accused have been convicted by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari under sections 304(A) (causing death by negligence) and 304-II (culpabale homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code.