Not even vicarious responsibility for Warren Anderson, not even a judicial comment?


The court did not even pass an obiter dictum, some comment about the vicarious responsibility of the MNC Union Carbide.

No doubt, the court restricted itself to the case in hand regarding the responsibility of the Indian operators of Union Carbide for the gas leak in Bhopal in 1984 killing 10,000 people and injuring, maiming and incapacitating, may be, lakhs of people over a period of time.

The present court verdict has bestowed on eight Indian accused the maximum punishment allowed by the Supreme Court for carelessness and allied offences. The Supreme Court had excised the CBI move for charging culpable homicide not amounting to murder. That charge would have bestowed on them , may be, 10 years of imprisonment.
US citizen Warren Anderson, the global corporate chairman then, was earlier held and enlarged on bail and the gentleman is absconding.

People definitely can go in appeal. Maybe in course of time, the Supreme Court may review its decision. But how many years after the occurrence of the disaster?