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.
Anxiously aiting outside the court of the chief judicial
magistrate Mohan M Tiwari in Bhopal on 7 June, 36-year
old Raghu Jaidev and many other victims of the Bhopal
catastrophe were crestfallen, some of them,outraged,upon hearing
the outcome of the trial that had dragged on for almost two decades. (Editorial)
New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again.
New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim.
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
