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Various Indian scientists have died mysterious deaths over the period of time. Indian media has speculated conspiracy theories regarding the deaths of these scientists as they spanned in a certain time period and as many of them were nuclear scientists. Causes of these deaths include blasts in laboratories, hangings, road accidents, medicinal overdose and drowning in water bodies.
An RTI raised by activist Chetan Kothari was answered by saying that 197 employees of Department of Atomic Energy had committed suicide in the years between 1995 and 2010.[1]
List
edit| No. | Name | Employer | DOD | Cause of death | Investigation findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lokanathan Mahalingam | Kaiga Atomic Power Station | 13 June 2009 | Suicide by drowning in Kali River, Karwar, Karnataka | Suicide due to personal reasons |
| 2 | Ravi Mule | Nuclear Power Corporation | |||
| 3 | M Iyer | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | |||
| 4 | Uma Rao | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | |||
| 5 | KK Josh | ||||
| 6 | Abhish Shivam | ||||
The issue of mysterious deaths was also raised in Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, in February 2014 (16th Lok Sabha). The then opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party's members A. T. Patil (of Jalgaon constituency) and Hansraj Gangaram Ahir (of Chandrapur constituency), both from Maharashtra, had staged the questions in Lok Sabha regarding unnatural deaths of the scientists and engineers in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Atomic Power Stations.[2]
References
edit- ^ Jayaram, Pradipti (13 October 2014). "Counting suicides in India's nuclear family". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.3362" (PDF). Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ Saksena, Abhishek (25 April 2017). "India's Nuclear Scientists Have Been Dying Mysteriously And No One Knows Why". India Times. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "11 nuclear scientists died in mysterious circumstances in 4 years". Times of India. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2019.