In a major breakthrough, the CBI has arrested S I Qureshi, a convict in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, who has been absconding since 2016.
Qureshi was picked up from Nagpur in Maharashtra on Tuesday by the Central agency, an official said on Wednesday.
He was brought to the court of Bhopal district and sessions judge on Wednesday in an ambulance following his ill-health.
Judge RK Verma walked out of his courtroom to the ambulance of Qureshi on the premises of the court and took stock of his health, before granting him bail on the health ground.
The judge directed Qureshi to furnish two securities of Rs one lakh each.
Qureshi had served with the now-defunct Union Carbide in Bhopal from where the toxic gas emanated on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killing thousands of people in Bhopal and maiming many.
A trial court convicted Qureshi and seven others in June 2010 under section 304 (A) (causing death by negligence) and others under the Indian penal ...
