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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...

Shivraj Singh Chouhan vanquishes rivals in BJP

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MADHYA PRADESH Master of all that he surveys How Shivraj emerged invincible, vanquishing all his rivals NK SINGH DB Post 5 March 2017 A distressed Babulal Gaur , former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, complained to state assembly this week that bureaucrats had stopped answering his calls. Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh rose in his support: “If officials do not respond to calls of a former chief minister, you can imagine how they treat common man.” Gaur was Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s predecessor. He is the senior most member of the house. The ten-time MLA, who was once seen as a threat to Chouhan, has been sulking ever since he was unceremoniously dropped from cabinet in June last year on grounds of old age.  Till a few months ago, he was considered the most powerful minister in cabinet and the lone voice of dissent. He apparently wanted to embarrass the government by publicly voicing his plight. But his whining only succeeded in high...