Mere coincidence...........
Adil Shahriyar, son of Muhammad Yunus (close family friend and advisor to Mrs Indira Gandhi, at whose place Rajiv Gandhi's brother Sanjay's wedding was solemnised) was tried in a US Federal Court by a jury, and convicted on a five count indictment and sentenced in 1982 by District Court to 35 years hard labour in prison for trying to blow up a ship, illegal possession of firearms and carrying them across State borders
and drug trafficking.
He appealed to the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals which rejected the appeal on 21 November 1983 saying, "We find that the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the verdicts and therefore affirm the district court's denial of the motion for judgment of acquittal"
Rajiv Gandhi became PM on 31st October 1984. It was just at that time 3rd/4th December 1984 -- that the infamous and catastrophic Bhopal gas tragedy shook the world.
Warren Anderson, the American CEO of Union Carbide, the company whose plant it was in Bhopal, was indicted and imprisoned at Bhopal, a little later.
Reagan was the US President at the time!
Warren Anderson is freed by Rajiv Gandhi and, by great coincidence, Adil Shahriyar was granted Presidential pardon "as a goodwill gesture", and freed. He went back to his doting father, Mohammad Yunus.
Anderson flew back to the US.
Anderson's departure from Bhopal was not a stealthy one. He flew out on the official plane of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Arjun Singh, to Delhi, where he was reportedly granted audience by everyone from top bureaucrats to Cabinet Ministers to the PM and even the President.
contributed by Mr. Bhaskaran Sivaraman
Adil Shahriyar, son of Muhammad Yunus (close family friend and advisor to Mrs Indira Gandhi, at whose place Rajiv Gandhi's brother Sanjay's wedding was solemnised) was tried in a US Federal Court by a jury, and convicted on a five count indictment and sentenced in 1982 by District Court to 35 years hard labour in prison for trying to blow up a ship, illegal possession of firearms and carrying them across State borders
and drug trafficking.
He appealed to the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals which rejected the appeal on 21 November 1983 saying, "We find that the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the verdicts and therefore affirm the district court's denial of the motion for judgment of acquittal"
Rajiv Gandhi became PM on 31st October 1984. It was just at that time 3rd/4th December 1984 -- that the infamous and catastrophic Bhopal gas tragedy shook the world.
Warren Anderson, the American CEO of Union Carbide, the company whose plant it was in Bhopal, was indicted and imprisoned at Bhopal, a little later.
Reagan was the US President at the time!
Warren Anderson is freed by Rajiv Gandhi and, by great coincidence, Adil Shahriyar was granted Presidential pardon "as a goodwill gesture", and freed. He went back to his doting father, Mohammad Yunus.
Anderson flew back to the US.
Anderson's departure from Bhopal was not a stealthy one. He flew out on the official plane of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Arjun Singh, to Delhi, where he was reportedly granted audience by everyone from top bureaucrats to Cabinet Ministers to the PM and even the President.
contributed by Mr. Bhaskaran Sivaraman
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Y.Hariharan said... - Why is this piece so obscure? If the contents are true why not bring it to the attention of Indian Media like NDTV etc. Y.Hariharan
