CBI seeks extradition of Warren Anderson

New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday moved a petition in the court seeking extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.

In its application filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, the CBI demanded that extradition proceedings against Anderson should begin.

After considering the urgent application, Magistrate Yadav kept the application for further hearing on Wednesday.

Warren Anderson is the main accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy when a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation’s now defunct pesticide plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal killed and maimed thousands of people on the intervening night of Dec 2-3.