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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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The Year of Political Instability in Bihar

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Bhola Paswan Shastri : CM for 12 days

NK SINGH 

1969 proved to be the year of political instability in Bihar. The Congress-led coalition Government, which came to power on 26th February, collapsed on 22nd June.

The Jana Sangh was opposed to inclusion of Justin Richard of Hul Jharkhand party in the council of ministers because it would have been a blow to its own ambition in the tribal areas.

The Jana Sangh had succeeded in penetrating some remote areas of Chotanagapur by working on the slogan of Christian tribal versus non-Christian tribal.

After the resignation of Sardar Harihar Singh, Bhola Paswan Shastri took over. But he could continue in power for only 12 days! It was the days of the Aaya Rams and Gaya Rams.

My report in Frontier of 12thJuly 1969 describes how Bihar has been bogged down by political instability since the 1967 general election.

There was no Government. Administration was at standstill. Files had piled up without anyone having time to see them. Development work had stopped.

Frontier 12 July 1969


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