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Bail for Union Carbide chief challenged

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NK SINGH Bhopal: A local lawyer has moved the court seeking cancellation of the absolute bail granted to Mr. Warren Ander son, chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation, whose Bhopal pesticide plant killed over 2,000 persons last December. Mr. Anderson, who was arrested here in a dramatic manner on December 7 on several charges including the non-bailable Section 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), was released in an even more dramatic manner and later secretly whisked away to Delhi in a state aircraft. The local lawyer, Mr. Quamerud-din Quamer, has contended in his petition to the district and sessions judge of Bhopal, Mr. V. S. Yadav, that the police had neither authority nor jurisdiction to release an accused involved in a heinous crime of mass slaughter. If Mr. Quamer's petition succeeds, it may lead to several complications, including diplomatic problems. The United States Government had not taken kindly to the arrest of the head of one of its most powerful mul...
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Will Arjun Singh’s autobiography reveal it all?

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NK SINGH


Veteran Congress leader Arjun Singh’s much-awaited bare-it-all autobiography, scheduled to be released sometime in March, may now get delayed a bit due to his death.


            The 500-page book had evoked a keen curiosity in political circles when Singh, a key player of Indian political scene for 50 years, had announced last year that it will reveal many new facts about several momentous events.


            With characteristic modesty Singh, who was known to be a voracious reader, had titled his autobiography “A Grain of Sand in the Ocean of Time’. (Later, when the book came out after his death, it was called "A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time".)


            It is being published by Hay House India, the same publication house that recently came out with autobiographies of eminent jurist Fali S Nariman and former Prime Minister IK Gujral.


            Arjun Singh had held several key positions during his long political innings. His book, said sources who had discussed it with him, is expected to shed light on important chapters in modern history like Punjab Insurgency, Bhopal gas leak tragedy, Babri mosque demolition and surrender of Chambal bandits like Phoolan Devi and Malkhan Singh.


            Arjun Singh had submitted his manuscript to the publishers two months back. “At present, he was revising it and he had already completed about 85% of the work,” said Ashok Chopra, the head of Hay House.


            He said they would take up the matter with family members of the departed leader once the mourning period was over. He expected the book to come out soon.


            Hay house denied reports that Singh had accepted a “hefty” advance for writing the book contract.


            Singh’s book, said a senior journalist in Bhopal whom he had shown some chapters of his book, was not very kind towards two persons he considered his adversaries - former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and present Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.


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Originally published in Hindustan Times, 6 March 2010


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