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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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Bomb attack on anti-Maoist rally at Patna

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Representational image courtesy Foreign Policy
 

NK SINGH

Bomb attack on anti-Maoist rally at Patna on 7 August 1970 kills one, injures nine.

In retaliation, Vidyarthi Parishad attacks Muslim shops, burns one, loots three.

CPI(ML) takes responsibility for bomb attack.

Earlier, they had bombed Gandhi Darshan train at Patna, attacked a rightist convention at Patna on 25 April 1970 and assault RSS student leader on April 30 1970. They also hurled bombs on the house of the Principal of Patna Commerce College.

Police have arrested some students in the Commerce College case. One of the arrested Naxalite students had topped the secondary school examination in 1969. 

Excerpts from Frontier 29 August 1970

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