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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday scheduled its order on a curative petition filed by Centre in 1984 Bhopal gas catastrophe case to
raise additional demand from Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) to compensate the victims as the company highly opposed the move saying that
there was not a scintilla of merit in the plea and it totals up to abuse of process of law.Countering Centres submission that the
settlement reached in between the parties required to be reopened, the business, represented by senior advocate Harish Salve and legal
representative Shiraz Patodia, said that a quantity of $470 million (Rs 750 cr) was paid by the business in 1989 towards complete and last
settlement covering all litigations, claims, liabilities emerging out of Bhopal gas disaster and it might not be asked to pay more.Appearing
before a constitution bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, Abhay S Oka, Vikram Nath and J K Maheshwari, Salve competed that
there was never any shortage in the settlement fund and informed the court that the welfare commissioner had actually filed affidavit in
2011 one year after the curative petition was submitted and he had actually specifically stated that all claimants were paid settlement two
times and there was no deficiency.
