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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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Matriculation exam topper arrested for Naxal activity in Bihar

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NK SINGH

Naxalites have reached Patna with their Mao-cult slogans on walls and a few hand bombs in halls.

All the walls of the town are full of Naxalite slogans.

Some weeks ago, they hurled bombs to disrupt a ‘save democracy convention’ called by right wing political parties. It was the first Naxalite action in Patna.

After five days the police arrested seven students. They were pasting posters on walls to celebrate May Day. The president of Patna unit of Vidyarthi Parishad, Tiwari, was thrashed when, along with some of his friends, he tried to stop them.

One  of the arrested students had secured highest marks in the Secondary Examination held last year, i.e. he is the topper of Bihar.

Naxalites also hurled crackers on the Gandhi Darshan train, which had not received such treatment anywhere else.

Soon enough they bombed the house of the Principal of Patna Commerce College, who had helped in their arrest.

Excerpts from Radical 5 September 1970

Radical 5 September 1970



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