DU radiation case deferred to Sept 29
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22/09/2011
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
New Delhi: A trial court will now hear on September 29 the chargesheet filed in the Mayapuri radiation leak incident against six Delhi University teachers.
The court, which was to consider the chargesheet on Wednesday, deferred it till September 29. Meanwhile, a DU professor, accused in the case, has moved court seeking permission to go abroad to deliver a lecture and participate in an academic programme.
The professor said that the assignment is of Delhi University. The court has asked the varsity to file a report on it by September 29. Six professors — VS Parmar, AV Prasad, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Kumar, Rita Kakkar and Rooplal - have been charged under section 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life), 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life), 304A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC. The Delhi Police has listed 60 witnesses in the case. Last April, a metal pipe containing the radioactive Cobalt-60 found in West Delhi's Mayapuri scrap market was traced to Delhi University's chemistry department.