MTNL: No PMO, US call records over Anderson
The circumstances under which United Carbide chief Warren Anderson suddenly fled the country after he arrived in the aftermath of Bhopal Gas tragedy will continue to remain a mystery with MTNL, which could also have thrown some light, unable to provide phone call details.
The state-owned telephone company has expressed its inability to provide records of call details between the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the US government during the days immediately after the tragedy on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, saying such information prior to 1997 are “not available” with it.
Any information given on the issue might have thrown some light on the circumstances of the controversial departure of Mr Anderson after the PMO said it has no records of phone calls received from any US government official during the period of Mr Anderson’s visit, December 6-7, 1984.
Special Protection Group (SPG) has also refused to give any information on the issue saying they have been exempted from making any disclosure under the RTI Act.
Mr Anderson reached Bhopal from the US nearly three days after the gas tragedy struck the city.
Upon his arrival, he was arrested by the local police and later granted bail by a local court. But Mr Anderson managed to flee the country on December 7 and remained evasive since then. He was allowed to use the aircraft of Madhya Pradesh government to come to Delhi from Bhopal from where he returned to the US. —PTI
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