Is there an extradition treaty between the U.S. and India?
SARANGI: Yes. The government made the request to the State Department and to the Justice Department. We know that it was delivered on May 20. CCR: The company merged with Dow Chemical. When was that? SARANGI: They announced the merger in 1999. And they finalized the merger on February 6, 2001. CCR: What has been the response of Dow Chemical? SARANGI: Initially, they didn’t want to speak with us. We had a demonstration in February 2001 in Bombay. After Union Carbide sold off its shares and went off, Dow moved in. Dow has two subsidiaries and two joint ventures in India. The demonstration was in front of a facility in Bombay. They agreed to meet after that. They first took the position that they could not be held responsible for a factory they did not run in a place they did not visit. Finally, they agreed to talk on things. After a year of negotiations, we found that they were taking advantage of the fact that we were talking with them. They were using it as a public relations campaign,
