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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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Population Problem in India

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Graph source: English Online

NK SINGH

“We all know what a war fought with nuclear bombs will mean. It would mean the destruction of million of human beings. But the bombs can only destroy the body. Population explosion can do much worse. It can destroy the soul and degrade the dignity of the human being.”

-MC Chagla, speaking at the American National Conference on ‘A new look at the population crisis’.

1.       India ranks 2nd in population after China and seventh in land area. It claims 15 per cent of the world’s population and 2.4 per cent of the world’s land area.

2.      Daily 167,000 children in the world, out of which India’s share is 50,000 -- 821 more mouths to feed every minute.

3.      Fourteen out of every 100 persons is Indian and they are increasing at the rate of about 2.2 per cent annually.

GROWTH OF INDIA’S POULATION
Adjusted to the present area

1891 – 23.67 crore
1901 – 23.63 crore
1911 – 25.21 crore
1921 – 25.14 crore
1931 – 27.90 crore
1941 – 31.67 crore
1951 – 36.11 crore
1961 – 43.92 crore

Excerpts from The Searchlight 9 February 1970

India is set to overtake China as world's most populous country. And we have been ignoring the warning since 1977. NK Singh's article on population problem in India published in The Searchlight, 9 February 1970
The Searchlight 9 February 1970





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