IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh.

The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984.

Political Bureau

New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh said that Anderson was released

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy headed by Home Minister P. Chidambaram has been given a vastly expanded mandate, which includes remediation measures at the site of the 1984 disaster.

Arun Bothra and Komal Jain

The judge could only punish the guilty as per the law book. Just because people are angry and the media is getting hysteric he could not invent new sections of the law. In fact maximum punishment for the offence under Section 304B is two years and it has been awarded

The inhabitants of the city of Bhopal became victim of the world

BHOPAL NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H.

LALIT SHASTR
BHOPAL

P Chidambaram Union home minister P Chidambaram will head a reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) to look at relief and rehabilitation measures arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster that killed 15,000 people in one night in 1984.

Earlier, Arjun Singh was heading the panel, as he was the state chief minister when it occurred. He is no longer part of the government.

More details tumbled out today in the Bhopal gas tragedy case of how former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson got bail immediately after his arrest. However, the then CBI chief rejected claims that the agency was asked not to pursue his extradition.

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