Disclose details about Anderson extradition: CIC to MEA

The External Affairs Ministry should disclose all information related to the Bhopal Gas tragedy, including the communication exchanged between it and CBI on the extradition of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, the Central Information Commission has held.

Overruling the Ministry's argument that the information could not be disclosed since the issue of Anderson''s extradition is sub-judice, Information Commissioner Annapurna Dixit said the matter is of significance to the general public especially to the families of the victims who have been awaiting justice for the past 26 years.

The case relates to an RTI application filed by Delhi's Batla House resident Afroz