By M. Reyaz

While allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation​ (CBI) to once again seek the extradition of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, a Delhi Court observed in March this year, “The chronology of steps taken by the CBI from 1992 till July 2010 in the case reveals that the CBI was not sleeping over the matter and was conscious about its duties to bring Warren Anderson to book.”

Facts, however, tell a different story.

Documents available with Hardnews reveal that the CBI and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) allowed the first extradition attempt to be delayed by bureaucratic hurdles, at least from 1992 to 1994. Correspondence between MEA and CBI from the period clearly shows that in those two years the documents could not be put in order for ‘further proceedings’.

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