hindu swamis are always guilty of everything, by definition.
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From: sri
From: sri
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From: Jyotishi
Warren Anderson can be arrested with ease: simply start the rumor in a believable manner that he has become a Hindu swami. He'll be brought back in record time *and* prosecuted.
From: Jyotishi
Warren Anderson can be arrested with ease: simply start the rumor in a believable manner that he has become a Hindu swami. He'll be brought back in record time *and* prosecuted.
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
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Did Congress collude with Union Carbide?
The Pioneer, June 10, 2010.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/261708/Let-the-truth-be-known.html
The murky details that have begun to emerge ever since the Bhopal district court delivered its judgement in the Union Carbide disaster case last Monday are truly shocking. It would appear that there was collusion between various wings of the Government and Union Carbide to not only stall a full inquiry into the world's worst industrial disaster that claimed at least 15,000 lives and maimed many thousands more, but also protect those responsible for ensuring safety measures at the pesticides plant from being prosecuted under the law of the land and being punished for their crime. The then Collector of Bhopal has divulged how he was put under pressure to secure bail for Warren Anderson, the then chairman of Union Carbide Corporation, the US-based parent company of Union Carbide India Ltd, after he was arrested on arrival in the city. Interestingly enough, it has been known all along that Anderson was never taken to jail, as he should have been, but kept in the comfort of the company's plush guest house. Later, he was flown out in a Government aircraft and subsequently took a flight to America, thus fleeing the country and escaping the proverbial long arm of the law. If officials were indeed instructed to secure bail for Anderson, we need to know who directed them to do so. Was it Mr Arjun Singh, the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh? Or did instructions come from New Delhi where Rajiv Gandhi headed a Congress Government. We also need to know who decided to offer Anderson a free ride on a Government plane at the tax-payers' expense, thus affording him the opportunity to escape from India. These are only some of the questions that have been raised by the revelations over the past couple of days; as more skeletons tumble out of the cupboard, more questions are bound to be raised. The Congress-led UPA Government owes a full explanation to the nation or else Congress worthies shall be perceived to have worked in tandem with those who brought about death and destruction on hapless people in the winter of 1984.
Curiously, we are now told by a senior CBI official that the agency, which conducted the inquiry into the disaster and was thus responsible for prosecuting the guilty, was instructed not to persist with trying to secure the extradition of Anderson from the US. This has been denied by the then director of CBI, but the repudiation fails to convince as on the face of it, there's merit in the official's claim that little or no effort was ever made to bring Anderson to India to stand trial for the enormous crime. Had it not been so, Anderson would have faced trial along with the other accused. A last point that merits mention is the interventionist role played by a bench of the Supreme Court which stunningly directed the CBI to drop the original charges against the accused and frame fresh charges under a clause of the IPC that provides for lesser punishment. The Supreme Court may have had good reasons for its decision, but in the popular perception it erred grievously. It can be argued that 26 years later little or no purpose will be served by raising issues that have remained buried for so long. But a full and final closure of the tragedy will be possible only after the truth is known.
Did Congress collude with Union Carbide?
The Pioneer, June 10, 2010.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/261708/Let-the-truth-be-known.html
The murky details that have begun to emerge ever since the Bhopal district court delivered its judgement in the Union Carbide disaster case last Monday are truly shocking. It would appear that there was collusion between various wings of the Government and Union Carbide to not only stall a full inquiry into the world's worst industrial disaster that claimed at least 15,000 lives and maimed many thousands more, but also protect those responsible for ensuring safety measures at the pesticides plant from being prosecuted under the law of the land and being punished for their crime. The then Collector of Bhopal has divulged how he was put under pressure to secure bail for Warren Anderson, the then chairman of Union Carbide Corporation, the US-based parent company of Union Carbide India Ltd, after he was arrested on arrival in the city. Interestingly enough, it has been known all along that Anderson was never taken to jail, as he should have been, but kept in the comfort of the company's plush guest house. Later, he was flown out in a Government aircraft and subsequently took a flight to America, thus fleeing the country and escaping the proverbial long arm of the law. If officials were indeed instructed to secure bail for Anderson, we need to know who directed them to do so. Was it Mr Arjun Singh, the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh? Or did instructions come from New Delhi where Rajiv Gandhi headed a Congress Government. We also need to know who decided to offer Anderson a free ride on a Government plane at the tax-payers' expense, thus affording him the opportunity to escape from India. These are only some of the questions that have been raised by the revelations over the past couple of days; as more skeletons tumble out of the cupboard, more questions are bound to be raised. The Congress-led UPA Government owes a full explanation to the nation or else Congress worthies shall be perceived to have worked in tandem with those who brought about death and destruction on hapless people in the winter of 1984.
Curiously, we are now told by a senior CBI official that the agency, which conducted the inquiry into the disaster and was thus responsible for prosecuting the guilty, was instructed not to persist with trying to secure the extradition of Anderson from the US. This has been denied by the then director of CBI, but the repudiation fails to convince as on the face of it, there's merit in the official's claim that little or no effort was ever made to bring Anderson to India to stand trial for the enormous crime. Had it not been so, Anderson would have faced trial along with the other accused. A last point that merits mention is the interventionist role played by a bench of the Supreme Court which stunningly directed the CBI to drop the original charges against the accused and frame fresh charges under a clause of the IPC that provides for lesser punishment. The Supreme Court may have had good reasons for its decision, but in the popular perception it erred grievously. It can be argued that 26 years later little or no purpose will be served by raising issues that have remained buried for so long. But a full and final closure of the tragedy will be possible only after the truth is known.
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