( 1 ) WHILE hearing Civil Revision No. 224 of 1987, Preferred by the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) against the Union of India (UIO) and others, arising out of interlocutory application No. 19 in the Gas claim Case No. 1113 of 1986, pending in the Court of District Judge, Bhopal, seeking to restrain the Union of India and others from interrogating S. Sundara Rajan, a Senior Instrumentation Engineer and subjecting him to the detector test, the learned single Judge suo motu issued a show cause notice to the parties under S. 24 (1) (b) (i) of the Code of Civil Procedure, as to why the claim cases be not withdrawn from the file of the District Judge and tried in this Court.

( 2 ) ON the night intervening 2nd and 3rd Dec. 1984, there was leakage of Methyl Isocynate, a highly toxic gas, in the plant of the Union Carbide India. Ltd. (UCIL), resulting in death of over 2500 persons, creating permanent impairments to thousands of persons anti affecting a large Section of the population of the Bhopal city, said to be the worst industrial disaster in the world history. The Police registered criminal case against the officials of the UCIL on 6-12-1984. Individual claimants filed