He was the foreign secretary during the Bhopal gas disaster . It is claimed by the then Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in New Delhi in 1984 , in an interview with a news channel , that communications between the Government of India and himself relating to the release of Warren Anderson CEO of Union Carbide to return to the US went through the Foreign Secretary . In a subsequent interview with Karan Thapar , Mr Rasgotra held that releasing Warren Anderson was the right thing to do , since he had been earlier promised safe passage
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Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra