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Bhopal Gas: Alexander denies giving consent to Anderson to leave India | Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Principal Secretary PC Alexander has denied that former Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy was given consent to leave the country after the
catastrophe. Soon after the judgment, which came after a court case lasting nearly
25 years, the circumstances in which Anderson fled India have become a raging
controversy. "The question was put to me repeatedly, do you know that Mr. Rajiv
Gandhi gave his consent. I said I do no know. Did he consult with you? I said
he at that time did not consult anything or I did not talk to him on Warren Anderson
at all," said Alexander. "The case of Warren Anderson going or being send back
to America why, under what conditions, none of these things was known to me at
that time," he added. A District Magistrate''s Court in Bhopal had on June 7 convicted
all eight accused on grounds of negligence under Section 304 (a) for the tragedy.
The court also granted bail to seven of the eight accused and released them on
submission of a bond and a surety of Rs 25,000 each. The eight accused are Keshub
Mahendra, Vijay Gokhle, Kishore Kamdar, J Mukund, S P Choudhary, K V Shetty and
S I Qureshi and R B Roy Choudhary. Out of the accused R B Roy Choudhary, then
former Assistant Works Manager Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), Mumbai, died during
the trial. Anderson, the chairman of Union Carbide Worldwide, has been designated
an absconder. |
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