The Bhopal disaster Catastrophe , also referred Name_conferral to as the Bhopal gas tragedy , was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited ( UCIL ) pesticide plant in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India .

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 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 .

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 .

In June 2010 , seven Indian nationals who were UCIL employees Employment in 1984 , including the former UCIL chairman , were convicted Legal_rulings in Bhopal of causing Causation death Death by negligence and sentenced Rewards_and_punishments to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $ 2,000 each , the maximum punishment allowed Preventing_or_letting by Indian law .

In June 2010 , seven Indian nationals who were UCIL employees Employment in 1984 , including the former UCIL chairman , were convicted Legal_rulings in Bhopal of causing Causation death Death by negligence and sentenced Rewards_and_punishments to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $ 2,000 each , the maximum punishment allowed Preventing_or_letting by Indian law .