MP government has no information about flight that took Anderson out of Bhopal

New Delhi: Details of use of state government plane to ferry Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson out of Bhopal in 1984 are not available with the Madhya Pradesh government, state's aviation directorate has said.
Responding to an RTI application seeking to know who had sanctioned the flight which took Anderson to Delhi soon after the Bhopal gas tragedy in December 1984, the aviation directorate, after nine months of the application having been filed, said information is not available as the matter is 26-year-old.
The information under the Right to Information Act should be provided within one month of receiving the application but the Aviation Directorate which got the application on June 26, 2010, did not respond to it till March 26, 2011. The reply comes only after a complaint against it was filed with the State Information Commission.
The applicant had sought to know from the Aviation department the file noting regarding the sanction of the flight, name of person who sanctioned it, details about the names and number of passengers in it.
Anderson had reached Bhopal from the US three days after the gas tragedy struck the city on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killing over 15,000 people.
On his arrival, he was arrested by local police and later granted bail by a local court.
He was allegedly allowed to use an aircraft of Madhya Pradesh government to come to Delhi from Bhopal from where he returned to the US.
29/03/11 PTI/Economic Times

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