by BADRI RAINA
Suffice it to say that on the night of December 3, 1984, lethal quantities of Methyl Isocyanate escaped from the Union Carbide factory, as water entered tank no.610.
Within hours, some 2500 citizens, most of them poor Muslims, lost their lives.
Since then, a total of 20,000 are estimated to have perished, and hundreds of thousands either maimed, or rendered permanenly disabled.
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Whatever the other details, all in the public eye now several times over, the point of interest here is how Warren Anderson, the then CEO of UCIL was dealt with, and, secondly, how the highest court in India chose to view the matter.
That Anderson managed to escape the country is common knowledge; but only now do we know how that ignoble escape was facilitated.
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