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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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Glimpses of a Drug Sick Society

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Alia Bhatt in Udta Punjab, a movie on drug addiction

NK SINGH

One of the maladies of affluent nations has reached India -- the menace of drug addiction. A large number of young men, particularly university students in Punjab, are said to be taking barbiturates, palmed off as sex stimulants by unscrupulous chemists.

The disease is confined not only to men, but also the women have fallen prey. Young people find it cheaper than taking hard liquor. Some barbiturates have the same effect as whiskey. Some of the hardened addicts, who were not satisfied with the kick obtained from barbiturates, take a pinch of opium with it.

Excerpts from The Searchlight 21 March 1970




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