Direction for Question Nos. 149 to 153 : Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. Mohan Lal was a sprightly 22 when Hell descended near his home. A resident of a locality adjacent to the infamous Union Carbide factory, he was sleeping when his four-year old son woke him. Tears were streaming down the boy's eyes, but he wasn't crying. Bleary eyed, he glanced at the clock: it was a little past midnight. It was then that he smelt a strange smell. Could an LPG cylinder have leaked somewhere? Seeing his son desperately rub his eyes, and break out into a wracking cough got him worried. Something was clearly wrong. It was only when his wife, son and he dashed outside that reality dawned. Poisonous gas had leaked from one of the storage tanks inside the factory. It was 42 tons of methyl isocynate (MIC). Within 20 minutes at the most, the damage was done. That fateful night of December 2-3 twenty years ago wrecked his life, that of his family's and of hundreds of others. A frequent visitor at the office of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatan (which has been fighting for the rights of sufferers), Mohan Lal used to run a lucrative business selling garam masala. It fetched him nearly Rs. 5,000/- every month. He also owned three tenements. Today the better part of his month (20 out of 30 days) is spend in a hospital. He can't work anymore. Even the slightest exertion makes him breathless. An asthma attack can come any time. Treatment gives only temporary relief. So who runs the family? His wife (who is also partially affected) earns a couple of hundred rupees. The elder boy has a job at a bangle shop, and the younger, barely 12 runs errands at a tea shop. Two of the three houses he owned were sold to meet family expenses. But this could not prevent him from piling up debts of nearly Rs. 90,000/- over the years. He knows he can never return this money. As against this, Rs. 25,000/- is all the compensation he has received till date. And that too way back in 1995. He appealed twice, once to the Lok Adalat, and then to the Kalyan Ayog, over the poor handout. Both appeals were rejected on the plea that they were time-barred. But wasn't some help on its way again with the Supreme Court order to disburse the sum lying in its custody? It won't make much difference since another instalment of Rs. 25,000/ is the maximum that he will get, in keeping with the agreed norms. So how does Mohan Lal plan to live out the rest of his life ? “God only knows!" comes the plaintive reply. 149. . When did the Bhopal Gas tragedy take place ?

• A. Twenty years back
• B. On the night of December 2-3, 1984
• C. In 1995
• D. On the night of December 2-3, 1985