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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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AICC(I) meet turns into State show: Govt machinery for ruling party

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Public money used for party purpose

 NK SINGH

 Radical

21 November 1970


PATNA: The use of Government machinery for organising the meeting of a political party is not a healthy tradition.

In democracy, the difference between a political organisation and the Government must be understood well. Public resources should not be utilised for party purpose.

The democratic institution would not last long Government resources are misused by the party in power.

The 3-day conference of the All India Congress Committee (Indira Congress) at Patna turned into a State show rather than a political party meet.


Radical, November 21, 1970
Radical, 21 November 1970


Location: Patna, Bihar, India

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