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Bhopal Gas Tragedy: PM says India to convince US to extradite Anderson | The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday said that he and his government would try to convince the United States to favourably consider the extradition of former Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson for his role in the December 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. "We will try to ensure that the US Government takes a more favourable
attitude towards extradition, but we have not approached them yet," said Dr. Singh.
"I did not raise this issue in my discussions with President Obama (in Toronto
on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit). We will cross the bridge when we come to
it," Singh told media persons onboard Air India One. When asked whether he saw
the tragedy as the collective failure of the government, the political establishment
and the judiciary, Dr. Singh said: "What we propose to do has been made clear
by the GOM (Group of Ministers), whose report has been endorsed by the Cabinet.
"It is a fact, it is true that our judicial processes are time consuming. That
it should have taken 25 years before the case could be decided, is something that
we have to reflect about, and the inadequacies of our judicial system." When probed
on whether the Congress establishment should come clean - on who was responsible
for letting Anderson leave India, Dr. Singh said: "We are not hiding anything.
I think the GOM has looked at the records. There is nothing that they came across
by way of definite findings, as to who took the decision. Thos records are not
available now." |
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