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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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Bihar: A Brief Committee

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Justice TLV Aiyer

NK SINGH

On April 3, 1969 the Congress-led coalition Government's new Chief Secretary, SN Singh, set up a committee of top officers, including himself, to "assist and guide" the two inquiry commissions set up by the previous governments in Bihar -- the Aiyer and Mudholkar Commissions.

These are at present inquiring into charges of corruption and misuse of power against six former Congress ministers and 14 United Front ministers.

According to the officials, the briefing committee was to scrutinize evidence relating to each charge with reference to relevant papers and instruct lawyers concerned about the Government's point of view in respect of each charge.

But the storm of protest forced the Chief Minister to dissolve the committee on April 9.

Almost all the party leaders had sharply reacted to its formation. Even the Congress leaders.

The most interesting party of the drama was the disunity among the Top Five for whose benefit the Aiyer Commission was sought to be scuttled.

Excerpts from Frontier 26 April 1969


Frontier 26 April 1969

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