A court here on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by two former top government officials, seeking quashing of a case registered against them in connection with the escape of Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak case. Additional District Judge (ADJ) R K Soni dismissed the revision petition of the then Bhopal collector Moti Singh and the then superintendent of police Swaraj Puri, paving the way for their trial. Singh and Suri have been accused of facilitating the then Union Carbide Corporation chairman Anderson's escape. Anderson, a US citizen, visited Bhopal in the aftermath of the gas tragedy. He was subsequently allowed to leave the city. He never returned to appear before the trial court. Anderson was subsequently declared an absconder. He died in the US in 2013. The ADJ upheld the order of the chief judicial magistrate against Singh and Suri, said lawyer Harish Mehta, who is representing social activists Abdul Jabbar and Shahnawaz Khan, who have filed the criminal case against the two.