The World - News from Feb. 11, 1987
Indian officials said that Union Carbide Corp. is trying to interfere with its probe of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak that killed more than 2,000 people. They charged that the company is forcing a key witness to claim that government investigators have been intimidating him. The Indian government urged the Bhopal District Court to deny the U.S. company’s request to prohibit further interrogation of S. Sunderajan, the senior engineer when fumes of methyl isocyanate leaked from an underground tank at Union Carbide’s Bhopal pesticide plant. Last month, Sunderajan told the court that Indian investigators were harassing him, trying to get him to testify against Union Carbide.
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