Union Carbide Corporation ( UCC ) argues Quarreling water entered Arriving the tank through an act of sabotage .

The owner of the factory , UCIL , was majority owned by UCC , with Indian Government-controlled banks and the Indian public holding Hold a 49.1 percent stake .

In 1989 , UCC paid Commerce_pay $ 470 million ( equivalent to $ in ) to settle Resolve_problem litigation stemming Preventing_or_letting from the disaster Catastrophe .

In 1994 , UCC sold Commerce_sell its stake in UCIL to Eveready Industries India Limited ( EIIL ) , which subsequently merged Cause_to_amalgamate with McLeod Russel ( India ) Ltd. Eveready ended Process_end clean-up on the site in 1998 , when it terminated Process_end its 99-year lease Renting and turned Becoming over control of the site to the state government of Madhya Pradesh .

Dow Chemical Company purchased Commerce_buy UCC in 2001 , seventeen years after the disaster Catastrophe .

Civil and criminal cases filed Submitting_documents in the United States against UCC and Warren Anderson , UCC CEO at the time of the disaster , were dismissed and redirected to Indian courts on multiple occasions between 1986 and 2012 , as the US courts focused Aiming on UCIL being a standalone entity of India .

Civil and criminal cases filed Submitting_documents in the United States against UCC and Warren Anderson , UCC CEO at the time of the disaster , were dismissed and redirected to Indian courts on multiple occasions between 1986 and 2012 , as the US courts focused Aiming on UCIL being a standalone entity of India .

Civil and criminal cases were also filed Submitting_documents in the District Court of Bhopal , India , involving Cause_to_be_included UCC , UCIL and UCC CEO Anderson .

Civil and criminal cases were also filed Submitting_documents in the District Court of Bhopal , India , involving Cause_to_be_included UCC , UCIL and UCC CEO Anderson .