VIVEK CHHETRI Svacha in Darjeeling on Monday. (Suman Tamang) Darjeeling, July 28: A scientist for whose release his peers across the world had launched a campaign is now afraid that he might lose his job once he goes back to his country. Petr Svacha, an entomologist, and his companion Emil Kucera are out on interim bail in a case where they have been accused of illegally collecting insects. However, the 51-year-old scientist is apprehensive that if the trial takes months (as he has heard it does), his friends at the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic will not be able to help him. "My colleagues know I am not a smuggler, but if I have to stay here for months or even years since I have heard certain cases do take that long, I may have to quit because of the prolonged absence from the Academy. In that case, my friends will not be able to help me,' said Svacha. The scientist is currently working on three projects. "I am preparing a monograph on palearctic (tropical and sub-tropical broad-leaf forests) beetles which are usually found in China and the former USSR,' Svacha told The Telegraph. A monograph is a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study about a particular subject in a limited area. "I am also writing a chapter on long horn beetles to be published in Handbook of Zoology.' The third and the most important work, Svacha claims, is the DNA isolation of a particular type of beetle and using it to study other sub-species of the insect. "That is why I needed live larvae.' The scientist and his companion were caught with a cache of around 200 beetles from the fringes of Singalila national park on June 22. All three projects are time bound