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Who is killing India's nuclear scientists?

By Sanjib Ghosh @sampadscales

This thread can be found here :

https://twitter.com/sampadscales/status/1030855114137907200

Eleven Indian nuclear scientists, who have died unnaturally between 2009 to 2013.
What remain actual is the strange deaths of some of the most talented nuclear
scientists of the country. Let us check them out....

Lokanathan Mahalingam

He was working at the Kaiga atomic power station in Karnataka, apparently went out
for a morning walk in June 2008 & never returned. His body was found 5 days later.
Why was the scientist’s body cremated before the DNA tests were released?

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M Padmanabhan Iyer

An engineer at the BARC, who was found dead at his residence on Feb 2010. Finding no
fingerprints or clues at crime scene, the forensics declared the cause of death
'unexplained' & the investigations came to a standstill as well, the case was closed in
2012.

K K Josh and Abhish Shivam

Two high ranking engineers on India’s 1st nuclear-powered submarine were found at
Penduruthy near Vizag Naval Yard by workers. They were not hit by any train, but yet
were dead. They were poisoned elsewhere before being placed on the tracks.

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Mohammad Mustafa

A scientist at the IGCAR, Kalpakkam. He was only 24 yrs old when his body was found
inside his quarters in 2012. Apparently, the young scientist had slashed his own wrist. A
death note was found by the police, there was no reason for suicide written in it.

Umang Singh and Partha Pratim Bag

Both were burnt to death in a mysterious fire on Dec, 2009 in the radiation &
photochemistry laboratory of the BARC. Interestingly, forensic reports said there was
nothing in the room that was inflammable which indicated foul play in the case.

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Titus Pal

She worked at the BARC, was 27 yrs old only when she was found dead, hanging from
the ventilators at her campus residence of BARC in Trombay. Her suspicious and
apparent suicide is yet another case of unsolved deaths of nuclear scientists in India in
the recent years.

Uma Rao

Her body was found at her residence in 2011 and although, the cause of the death was
said to be suicide, though her family and colleagues, however, did not agree that Uma
Rao ever showed any signs of depressions or suicidal tendencies for that matter.

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Dalia Nayek

She was a senior researcher at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. In 2009, she had
allegedly consumed mercuric chloride & died at the hospital the next day, was only 35
yrs old.

Tirumala Prasad Tenka

He was a 30 yrs old scientist, working at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced
Technology, who allegedly took his own life in 2010. According to the police, he had also
left a note mentioning the reason of his suicide being “mentally tortured by his senior”

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