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"No. Legally and technically, we can't say it (the case
against Anderson) is over. The case against him is still
on...he can be procured, he can still be tried," Moily
told PTI.
He said the name of Anderson, who left the country soon
after the tragedy struck Bhopal on the intervening night of
December 3-4, 1984, figured in the charge sheet filed by the
CBI in the case.
The Minister declined to comment on being asked whether
government was making or would make efforts to extradite
Anderson.
"I don't know whether the central government can
intervene at this stage," he said on whether the Centre could
do something in a case where the justice came too late and the
quantum of punishment was too little.
CBI had filed a charge sheet under Section 304 (II) of
the IPC(culpable homicide not amounting to murder) under which
the maximum punishment is 10 years.
"But after the case was agitated by the accused, the
matter went to the Supreme Court which said it was not proper
to file charges under Section 304 (II) and it has to be framed
under Section 304 (A) (causing death by negligence) where the
maximum punishment is two years," he said.
Adding a new twist in the case, Lall, who has retired
from CBI, said, "I was told by the Ministry of External
Affairs officials not to follow the extradition of Warren
Anderson, which affected the CBI probe."
Justice Ahmadi said it was unfortunate that Anderson
was allowed to leave the country as he was the principal
offender.
Defending his judgement pronounced in 1996, he asked
if anything was wrong with it, why didn't anyone seek a
review. "I don't think the view I took then was wrong," he
said.
Terming Monday's judgement as "very unsatisfactory,"
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said, "It is a matter of
deep anguish that it has taken such a long time for the
verdict to come out."
"It is clearly very unsatisfactory from every point of
view and the furore over it is understandable," he said.
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