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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (261)	9/5/2002 5:54:14 PM
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story.news.yahoo.com India to Pursue Extradition of Bhopal Accused Thu Sep 5,10:13 AM ET NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is determined to press the United States for the extradition of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson over a 1984 gas disaster that killed thousands, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday. The leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central city of Bhopal was one of the world's worst industrial accidents and killed 3,000 people at the time. Thousands were left with lifetime illnesses. "The government is committed to pursue the request for extradition," an official who did not want to be identified told reporters. Anderson faces charges of culpable homicide and Indian courts have repeatedly asked New Delhi to seek his extradition from the United States where he now lives in retirement. Anderson, considered a fugitive from Indian law for refusing to face charges in its courts, could be jailed for 10 years and fined if found guilty. "Any time lapse notwithstanding, the government is decided on processing the request for extradition as and when all the evidentiary links are put together," the official said. "Concerned agencies have been asked to do everything possible to confirm the evidentiary links between Anderson and the gas leak in Bhopal so that the extradition request is successful." Five tons of poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of the pesticide plant in the early hours of Dec. 3, 1984. Though India's civil case against Union Carbide was settled five years later for $470 million, criminal cases against the defendants are still pending. A Bhopal court last week rejected a plea by federal police to reduce charges against Anderson to rash negligence from culpable homicide. Anderson flew into Bhopal after the tragedy in December 1984 for a three-day visit during which he was arrested and released on bail. He retired from Union Carbide in November 1986. Union Carbide said in 1993 the Indian criminal charges did not involve the parent firm or Anderson and they were not subject to the jurisdiction of Indian courts.