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Artikel

13 Apr 2015

Autor:
Narayan Lakshman, Hindu (India)

Indian Govt. should have done more to secure extradition of former Union Carbide CEO from USA over Bhopal disaster, says journalist

“Did India take US snub on Bhopal case lying down?” 4 Apr 2015

India may not have been batting on the front foot for justice for its citizens despite being snubbed on its two extradition requests to the U.S. for Warren Anderson, the late and former CEO of Union Carbide Company, allegedly responsible for the worst industrial accident in modern India…“Government of India’s request for extradition of Mr. Warren Anderson has not been agreed to by the U.S. side till date,” the Indian Embassy [in the USA] said…Arguing that the Bhopal gas case matter was still “sub-judice,” the Embassy declined to provide any documentation of its communications with the U.S. authorities...If the tables were turned and a U.S. corporate criminal had fled to India, Washington would have used all its powers to push the Indian government — an approach New Delhi did not follow...[T]he Bhopal cases filed...in the U.S. have also run into dead ends, particularly after a New York judge declined, in July 2014, to allow the case brought by victims of the tragedy to proceed and ruled in favour of Union Carbide...

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