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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 government bans purchases due to financial crisis

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NK SINGH

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Government has imposed a ban on all sorts of purchases in all departments in view of the alarming financial crisis existing in the state. The ban, it is reliably learnt. will remain in force till May 15.

The ban, however, would not cover labour wages, salary, hospitals, hostels and essential services. According to official sources, circulars to this effect have been issued in view of the financial crisis

Last week, the state Government was on the brink of bankruptcy as the cheques and bills issued by it were dishonoured by banks following the refusal of the Reserve Bank the overdraft to increase limit.

April 25, 1985

Indian Express




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