Accompanying documents now publicly available for the first time reveal that Union Carbide and Anderson ordered under-investment in the highly dangerous Sevin/MIC units in order to help side-step Indian regulations requiring a dilution of foreign equity that would have endangered the company's overarching control of its Indian subsidiary, UCIL.

In an amended complaint, H. Rajan Sharma, the attorney representing plaintiffs in the New York case, had argued how the company had taken great pains to ensure control over any subsidiaries:

"Union Carbide actually produced an internal manual 'Legal Control of a 50-50 Joint Venture Affiliate' which lists a number of 'devices or expedients' on how to retain control of an affiliate."

According to Satinath Sarangi, another representative of plaintiff organizations, the new documentary evidence confirms this: "one such 'expedient' was the MIC unit; they built it in order to retain control, they used untried technology to keep control, they under-funded it to keep control. When it turned Bhopal into a gas chamber, they said they'd had no control."

Though at the time of the disaster Union Carbide maintained that the Bhopal factory and their Institute, Virginia factory operated to the same standards and design, the new papers further reveal that the company recognised explicit differences between the two, even anticipating production problems from the use of 'unproven technology' in India.

"We now know for sure that senior Carbide officials, including Warren Anderson, not only knew about design defects and potential safety issues with the Bhopal factory, they actually authorised them," Sarangi commented.

"This is the documentary proof, the 'high standard of evidence' that the Indian Attorney General Soli Sorabjee claimed he didn't have to be able to press for Warren Anderson and Union Carbide's extradition. What we've found shows both prior knowledge and intent on the part of the accused: it is so significant that it demands the revision of the pending criminal charges in the Bhopal court."

On 11th November the representatives of the plaintiff organizations including Abdul Jabbar from Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan, Balkrishna Namdeo, Gas Peedit Nrashrit Morcha, Rashida Bi, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh, ND Jayaprakash and E. Deenadayalan, Bhopal Gas Peedit Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti and Satinath Sarangi, Bhopal Group for Information and Action and others met with senior officials of the CBI and handed over these documents to them. The CBI officials acknowledged the significance of these documents and agreed to use them in the extradition and prosecution of the accused corporation and its officials including Anderson.