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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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Mr N. K. Singh is a journalist with four decades of experience in the print media. He was the Resident Editor of Hindustan Times and Indian Express and State Head of Dainik Bhaskar.
He was for 14 years with India Today, where he worked as an Associate Editor.
He has worked with Nai Dunia, Peoples Samachar, The Hitavada, Secular Democracy and Pratipaksh.
During his long career, Mr Singh has written extensively. His articles and reports have appeared in several prestigious journals and newspapers like Economic & Political Weekly, Times of India, Seminar, Mainstream, Frontier, Far Eastern Economic Review, Illustratred Weekly of India, Sunday, Ravivar and Jansatta.
He has also authored three booklets on communal issue.
Mr Singh wrote commentary for a film on Bhopal gas tragedy produced by BBC. He was also associated as a journalist with three other documentaries produced by BBC and Granada TV on Bhopal gas tragedy. One of these documentaries won a gold at New York Film Festival.
Mr Singh has worked in New Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat, although Bhopal happens to be his base, his karmabhoomi, since 1974.
This website is an attempt to capture some of his work in print media, TV and digital space. It takes care to give hyperlinks so that readers may navigate to other digital properties for better understanding as well as for reference.
This website carries the hallmark of a Print Journalist -- Credibility.
You may contact NK Singh on nksexpress@gmail.com

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