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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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MP organises dances while world mourns Bhopal victims

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NK SINGH

Bhopal: The day the world will be observing 'Bhopal Day', to mourn the dead on the 100th day of the worst industrial disaster in history, the Madhya Pradesh Government Culture Department will start a celebration of classical dances.

By a cruel coincidence, the State Government's Culture Department will organise its week-long Khajuraho festival of classical dances from March 12, the day the international environment groups, including the United Nations agencies, have decided to observe as Bhopal Day.

The Culture Department and ifs prestigious show-piece, Bharat Bhavan, the multi-arts complex at Bhopal, was the subject of a recent controversy because of its insensitivity towards the plight of the poor illiterate gas victims.

In a handout issued here on Saturday, the Madhya Pradesh Government has invited tourists from all over the world for the "most spectacular and exhilarating cultural experience of the year". Renowned dancers like Yamini Krishnamurti, Protima Bedi and Padma Subramanyam will participate in this seven-day "extravaganza of classical dance".

Ironically, the day the Khajuraho festival will be inaugurated by Yamini Krishnamurti, the Citizen's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, set up three months ago to help the gas-hit people, will pay "homage to the gas victims" at the main gate of the Union Carbide Factory at Bhopal,

The committee, in a hand-out, has urged the people to observe Bhopal Day in their respective towns and villages to pay their respect to the 'martyrs'. Besides solidarity meetings in the shanty towns surrounding the Union Carbide Factory and a public meeting, a film on Bhopal disaster made by the avanti-garde filmmaker, Tapan Bose, will also be screened on the occasion.

Express news service

March 5,1985




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