Indian Magistrate Issues Arrest Warrant for Former Union Carbide Head

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

25

Issue:

10

Abstract:

On July 31, 2009, the chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal, Prakash Mohan Tiwari, in response to a victims’ group plea, issued an arrest warrant for Warren Anderson, the former chief executive officer of Union Carbide, for the gas leak that killed 10,000 people in India 25 years ago. Magistrate Tiwari directed the Indian government to press the United States government to extradite Anderson...(more)