<br/>Former Foreign Secretary M K Rasgotra said that the Home Ministry, under P V Narasimha Rao, had assured "safe passage" to Union Carbide Chief Warren Anderson before he came to India in the aftermath of the deadly 1984 Bhopal gas leakage and he took the decision after consulting the then Home Minister. <br/> <br/>Talking to a private TV channel, he said the then Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi was subsequently told about granting Anderson a safe passage, to which he did not object and had concurred.<br/> <br/>Former Foreign Secretary added that Anderson had requested a "safe passage" through the US Embassy.<br/>