High court refuses to stay release of web series on Bhopal tragedy

MUMBAI: The Bombay HC has refused to stay the release of the web series "The Railway Men - The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984", citing that the details of the event were already available in the public domain.

A vacation bench of Justice Arif Doctor on November 15 dismissed the petitions filed by two erstwhile employees of Union Carbide India Limited, who claimed that the series' depiction of the events leading to the tragedy and its cause may cause prejudice to them. The petitioners - Satya Prakash Choudhry and J Mukund - were convicted in the case. They later filed appeals, which is pending.

The HC noted that the petitioners have failed to make a "strong and compelling prima facie case that the web series contains defamatory, slanderous or libellous material".