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Bhopal gas tragedy: Shiv Sena demands action against Arjun Singh | The Shiv Sena party staged a protest in Bhopal on Wednesday to demand action against veteran Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh over his alleged role in the release of former Union Carbide
Chairman Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, who was allowed to leave the country soon after the catastrophe. The Shiv Sena activists
today submitted a memorandum to Madhya Pradesh Governor Rameshwar Thakur seeking
action against Arjun Singh and also demanded that free treatment should be given
to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. The protestors also burnt Arjun
Singh's effigy demanding swift action against the culprits. "We are protesting
Arjun Singh's liaisons with Anderson, where he traded the lives of thousands of
gas victims and also let Anderson escape from the country. He has worked like
a traitor," said Sanjay Saxena, State Secretary of Shiv Sena in Bhopal. "The Shiv
Sena wants action against Arjun Singh for betraying the country. We demand free
of cost treatment for the gas victims and investigation against former Chief Justice
of India Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi, who played a suspicious role in the law procedures,"
he added. Shiv Sena also threatened to stage State-wide protests, if their demands
were not met. Singh is alleged to have ordered the release of Anderson, but opposition
parties also allege that he was instructed to do so by the then Central Government
led by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Anderson has been charged with culpable
homicide not amounting to murder, grievous assault and killing and poisoning human
beings and animals. 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 has been designated an absconder. |
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