Warren Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide...

Warren Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide Corp. and a key defendant in a criminal suit filed by the Indian government, was declared a fugitive from justice by a court Bhopal, India. The Bhopal Criminal Court decision allows India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to start extradition proceedings with the U.S. government against Anderson, who is charged with homicide, court officials said. More than 3,300 people died on the spot or shortly afterward when poisonous gas spread over Bhopal in December, 1984, from a Union Carbide pesticides plant. Anderson failed to answer a court summons sent to him last September. Chief Magistrate R. C. Mishra ordered Anderson to appear in his court on March 31. He and eight other Union Carbide executives have been charged in connection with the disaster.