Bhopal: Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Devnarayan Mishra of Madhya Pradesh High Court have found 9 senior officials of the Central Government and Madhya Pradesh Government guilty in the contempt case. An order in this regard was issued on December 20. This order has now come to light. In which officials were asked to reply by January 16. Now the hearing in the case is going to start from Wednesday i.e. 17th January. In the order, the Central and State Government officials have been found guilty of not providing proper treatment and research arrangements to the Bhopal Gas victims and of continuous contempt of the Supreme Court's order of August 9, 2012 in the case of health of Bhopal Gas victims. In this regard, the court has also ordered to take strict action against the officers and file a case under Section 2 of the Contempt of Court Act 1971. 

These officers were found guilty: Rajesh Bhushan, former secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Central Government, Aarti Ahuja, former secretary of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers of the Central Government, Dr. Prabha Desikan, former director of Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, National Institute For Research on Environmental Health, Director of ICMRS Dr. RR Tiwari, Former Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh Iqbal Singh Bains, Additional Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh Health Department Mohammad Suleman, State Information Officer of INC Amar Kumar Singha, INCSI Vinod Kumar Vishwakarma, ICMR The name of former senior deputy director of R Rama Krishnan is also present. 
 
You have made a joke of the concept of PIL: The court has written in the charge imposed on all these officers that "It is clear from the July 2023 report of the monitoring committee constituted by the Supreme Court, including the monitoring committee, that more than 10.5 years have passed. After leaving, you all the respondents have not shown any promptness or sincerity in following the orders of the Supreme Court as well as this Court. The gas victims have been left in the lurch. You all the respondents have been so lax in the process of complying with these orders. "You all have reduced the concept of (PIL) to a mockery. This Court finds no good reason behind the laxity on the part of your respondents except your insensitivity towards the gas victims."

Punishment of guilty officers should become an example: Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information and Action has informed that all the gas victims organizations are welcoming this order of the judiciary and it is also necessary to make this order an example. So that the officials because of whom this condition of health system of gas victims has arisen. All those officers should also be given exemplary punishment. In this case, the court had asked all the officers to give orders by January 16. Now the hearing of the case will start from Wednesday. 

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