Mistake to have let Anderson go, says ex-minister Sathe

Senior Congress politician and former Union minister Vasant Sathe told a television channel that it was a mistake to have released former Union Carbide Corporation chairman and chief executive officer Warren Anderson and allowed him to leave the country back in 1984.

Sathe, who was a close aide of the late prime minister Indira Gandhi and a prominent member of Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet at the time, also told CNBC-TV18 on Karan Thapar’s show that he believed there may have been some collusion from people in authority to allow Anderson to escape.

Anderson was arrested and released on bail of a mere Rs25,000 by the Madhya Pradesh police on December 7, 1984. He left India immediately and never returned.