CBI seeks Anderson extradition

Mar 23, 2011 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday moved a petition in a Delhi court seeking extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
In its 33-page application filed before Tis Hazari court chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav, the CBI demanded that the extradition proceedings against Mr Anderson, 90, should begin. “He (Mr Anderson) should be extradited from the United States to face the trial which is pending against him in the court of the Bhopal chief judicial magistrate (CJM),” the CBI said in its application.
After considering the CBI’s urgent application, the CMM kept the application for further hearing till Wednesday.
While referring to the extradition treaty of September 14, 1999, between the US and India, the CBI said, “Warren Anderson is liable to be prosecuted on extradition to India for offence under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC.”
Mr Anderson is the main accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy when a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation’s plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal killed and maimed thousands of people on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.
Mr Anderson has never faced trial for his alleged role in triggering the world’s worst industrial disaster in 1984 and was declared a proclaimed offender by the court of Bhopal CJM in 1993.

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