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Professors in court over radiation death, and injuries

Radiation Leak: DU Professors Summoned on March 12 Outlook India.com PTI | NEW DELHI | FEB 27, 2012 Six Delhi University professors were today summoned by a court here to explain their alleged criminal culpability in death of one persons and critical injuries to seven others in 2010 due to radiation from a radioactive irradiator, disposed of in a scrap market here.

The summonses seeking the professors’s appearance on March 12 were issued by Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen, who took cognisance of the chargesheet, which was under the court’s consideration since September last year.

The Delhi Police had filed the chargesheet accusing the professors of endangering lives by auctioning a radioactive Cobalt-60 gamma irradiator without due mandatory precautions….. The matter came to fore when one person died and seven people were critically injured in
April 2010 after they were exposed to radiation when they cut open a Cobalt-60 irradiator at Mayapuri scrap market here. The irradiator was traced to the varsity’s Chemistry Department……. http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=753243

February 28, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, Legal