Will try for more favourable US line on Warren extradition: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the government would try to ensure that the US took a more favourable attitude towards the extradition of Warren Anderson,the former head of Union Carbide....

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the government would try to ensure that the US took a more favourable attitude towards the extradition of Warren Anderson,the former head of Union Carbide,but New Delhi had not approached Washington on this issue yet.

We havent approached them yet. I did not raise this issue in my discussions with President Obama, Singh told reporters on board Air India One. He was travelling from Toronto to Frankfurt,on his way home,from the Canadian city which hosted the G-20 summit on June 26-27.

Leakage of toxic gas from Union Carbides Bhopal factory in December 1984 killed almost 15,000 people. The over 6 lakh people who survived have had to suffer severe after-effects.

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Asked if the Congress leadership should come clean on who was responsible for allowing Anderson to leave the country,the PM said,We arent hiding anything. I think the Group of Ministers has looked at the records. There is nothing they have come across by way of definite findings as to who took the decision. Those records are not available.

The trial court hearing the Bhopal case had issued an arrest warrant against Anderson,one of the prime accused,last year. The BJP had accused the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government of having conspired to grant safe passage to Anderson after the disaster.