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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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Father Camille Bulcke Presides Over Kavi Sammelan

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Camille Bulcke, Pic Courtesy GhazabIndia

Akhil Bharatiyya Kavi Sammelan' was organised in the H.E.C.  stadium on 14th December. 


Some famous poets such as Shri Janaki Ballav Shastri, Shri Bedhark Banarsi and Sri Bharat Vyas participated.

Shri Jankiballav Shastri and Bharat Vyas intoxicated listeners with their love-poems.

Another popular poet Santosh, moved the audience with his patriotic recitations.

But the most heart touching poem was Kalyan Jain’s “Admi Se Admi Ko Pyar Ho Agar.”

Shri Bharat Vyas presented a satire on Congress and Gandhiji.

Other poets who contributed to the success of the Sammelan were Shri Ramji (Bhagalpur), Pankaj (Lucknow) Shri Mutalia, Ramachandra Verma of Ranchi, Rampriya Mishra “Laldhuan” of Patna, Srimati Snehalata of Lucknow, Gyanavati Sakssena of Bareilly, Bholanath and Hansh Kumar Tiwari.

Father Camille Bulcke who presided over spoke a few words. He congratulated the people of H.E.C. on holding this successful meeting of poets from all over India.

The Sentinel, Ranchi, 21 December 1968


The Sentinel 21 December 1968

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