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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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Scindia's Vikas Congress gets a drubbing

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NK SINGH


Ill-luck continues to dog Madhavrao  Scindia and he is sulking once again. The reason: his plans to emerge as the regional boss of Madhya Pradesh went awry when his party, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress (MPVC), scored a duck in the recent by-elections in the state.  

Scindia was so confident about the MPVC's chances that he had told his confidants he was not interested in rejoining the Congress. But after his party's poor showing in the by-elections, he readily gave his nod when the Congress president, Sitaram Kesri, sounded him out on merging the MPVC with the parent party. 

And one man who is evidently thrilled with the turn of events in the state is Chief Minister Digvijay Singh. After the results came in, an elated Digvijay is reported to have said: "Scindia may still be the king in Gwalior but his writ does not run all over Madhya Pradesh."

India Today, 15 November 1996

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