A district court on Monday issued bailable warrant in the gas disaster case against the then Bhopal District Collector Moti Singh and SP Swaraj Puri who are accused of helping Warren Anderson, the then Director of Union Carbide, in fleeing after the infamous tragedy of 1984.
Earlier on February 27, 2017 a local court had stayed the proceedings initiated by a lower court against the then Collector of Bhopal Moti Singh and Superintendent of Police Swaraj Puri in connection with the Bhopal gas disaster case.
On February 7, the court of CJM had issued bailable warrants against both the retired senior officials. Justice DK Paliwal of the Additional District Court stayed the proceedings while hearing the requests filed by the counsel of the accused.
The accused had filed a revision petition against the order of the CJM court dated November 20, 2016. The counsel of the accused requested the court to stay the proceedings till the hearing in the revision petition is complete, which the court agreed. The proceedings were stayed till April 24, 2017, which was the final date for deciding the revision petition.
Issuing bailable warrants, CJM Bhubhaskar Yadav has also imposed a bail bond of Rs 5,000 on the two former officials. The warrant was issued after the accused failed to appear before the court for the second consecutive hearing.