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As a portion of its business will be split into this new company, Union Carbide will be a fundamentally changed entity by March 2019, she added. UCC India was owner of pesticide plant in Bhopal where a gas-leak in 1984 led the world’s worst industrial disaster. The organisations are seeking decisive action to prevent Union Carbide Corporation(UCC) from escaping liability of crimes related to the disaster of 1984. DowDuPont Inc is an American company formed after the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont on August 31last year.UCC became a subsidiary of ‘The Dow Chemical Company’ (TDCC) in 2001and TDCC refuses to assume UCC’s liabilities. The recent letter sent to the CBI gains importance as Dow-DuPont is ready to spin off Dow..