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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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How USA missed the chance at Bokaro Steel Plant

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Bokaro Steel Plant. Pic courtesy Industriall Union

NK SINGH

Negotiations over the Bokaro Steel Plant, the fourth pearl in the string of the Hindustan Steel Limited, dragged on for several years.
 
This golden chance to improve the prestige and image of US foreign aid was missed by the Americans when their Senate refused to collaborate with the Bokaro Plant.

However, the Americans blame Krishna Menon more than the Indian Ambassador in Washington for it.

They say, it was this sharp-tongued “fellow-traveller” who made it impossible for them to think about Bokaro at that time.

So Bokaro was started in 1964 with Soviet help.

At first it was declared that the first stage of the plant would be ready by 1967 which was later extended to 1971. Now it is sure that that it would not be ready until June 1972.

(Note: Bokaro Steel Plant started its first blast furnace in 1972.)

Excerpts from Enlite 16 August 1969

Enlite 16 August 1969

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