Mistake to have let Anderson go, says ex-minister Sathe
Senior Congress politician and former Union minister Vasant Sathe told a television channel that he believed there may have been some collusion from people in authority to allow Anderson to escape.
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.