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VOL 1. MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
Apart from Netaji’s mysterious death in a plane crash, there are several conspiracies in the popular imagination. One such is the death of Homi J. Bhabha, generally acknowledged as the father of India’s nuclear power. He was killed when Air India flight 101 crashed near Mont Blanc, Switzerland, on 24 January 1966. A popular conspiracy theory had blamed the CIA, which is said to have executed an agenda to paralyse India’s nuclear programme.
Bhabha was not an advocate of the atom bomb. Perhaps he was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s strong aversion towards the bomb. In 1955 he had suggested to Nehru that India should unilaterally renounce the production of atom bombs. The Prime Minister replied that India should first have the ability to make a bomb… or else the “renunciation” would not be very convincing.
Ten years later, Nehru’s successor Lal Bahadur Shastri asked Bhabha ~ in the context of the Chinese tests of 1964 ~ whether Indian scientists could manage an underground test. Ironically, when General Ayub Khan was forced to accept a ceasefire following the Indo-Pak war in 1965, flying with Bhutto to Tashkent for a peace conference with Shastri, the frail Indian premier died ~ the day after the armistice agreement was signed in January 1966.
A former CIA operative, Robert Crowley, gave interviews over a period of four years, to Gregory Douglas, a journalist, who recorded their telephonic conversations and later published their transcripts in a book titled Conversations with the Crow. He claimed that the CIA was responsible for eliminating both Bhabha and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
On 30 December 1971, a few years after Dr Bhabha’s death, Vikram Sarabhai, hailed as the father of India’s space programme, was found dead in a hotel room at the Halcyon Castle in Kovalam. He had shown no signs of illness the previous evening and died rather mysteriously. His cremation was performed without even an autopsy.
Timeline of Deaths of Indian Nuclear Scientists
2004: an armed group with sophisticated weaponry allegedly tried to abduct an official from India's Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC)
2004: NPC employee, Ravi Mule murdered
June 2009: Nuclear scientist Lokanathan Mahalingam death labeled as suicide. Scientist’s body was found 5 days after death in a river and was cremated before the DNA tests were released.
Dec 2009: Umang Singh and Partha Pratim Bag young nuclear researchers at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center and both were burnt to death in a mysterious fire. forensic reports said there was nothing the room that was inflammable which indicated foul play in the case.
Feb 2010: Mahadevan Padmanabhan Iyer, an engineer at BARC, was found dead in his residence. no fingerprints or clues at crime scene, the forensics declared the cause of death “unexplained” and the investigations came to a standstill.
Feb 2010: S Ananthanarayanan, a scientist with IGCAR, after going missing for several weeks, was found dead on a railway track in Chennai.
April 2011: Body of former scientist Uma Rao was found and laveled suicide. Uma Rao never showed any signs of depressions or suicidal tendencies and her family is contested the verdict.
2012: Mohammad Mustafa, scientist at the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. His body was found inside his quarters at Kalpakkam.
Oct 2013: Two high-ranking engineers—KK Josh and Abhish Shivam—on India's first nuclear-powered submarine were found on railway tracks by workers. Both were poisoned first and then dragged and left to the tracks so that it looked as they met with an accident.
and many other scientists ..
Titus Pal was found hanging from the ventilators at her campus residence of BARC.She celebrated her birthday 3 days before her suicide.
Dalia Nayek, senior researcher at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, consumed mercuric chloride and died at the hospital the next day.
Tirumala Prasas Tenka working at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, who allegedly took his own life in 2010.
There have been 197 reports of suicides by nuclear scientists in the last 15 years.
Most of these deaths are labeled suicide.If the deaths of those in the community aren't classed as suicide, they're generally labeled as "unexplained". Forensics experts say that in all such unexplained deaths of scientists and engineers involved in the nuclear program, fingerprints are absent, as also other tell tale clues that would assist the police in identifying the culprit. These indicate a high degree of professionalism behind the murders, such as can be found in top-flight intelligence agencies of the type that have been so successful in killing Iranian scientists and engineers active in that country's nuclear program. According to the Government of India, over just a three-year period, there have been at least nine unnatural deaths of scientists and engineers at just BARC as well as the Kaiga nuclear facility, of which two have been categorized as suicide, with the rest unexplained in terms of bringing to book those responsible.
And it’s not just the scientists working on nuclear programmes that are dying horrific deaths. India’s space programme too has been subject to controversy. In a 15-year period, the Indian Space Research Organisation lost 684 personnel. That’s 45 deaths per year.
The most pressing issue isn't who might be behind the murders, but that the Indian government's apathy is potentially putting their high-value staff at even greater risk. Currently, these scientists, who are crucial to the development of India's nuclear programmes, whether for energy or security, have "absolutely no protection at all, which is quite amusing for people who are in such a sensitive programme.'
The fear of conspiracies has been a potent force across the political spectrum, from the colonial era to the present. But these ought not to be regarded as factual evidence against any establishment or its personnel. Conspiracy theories are sustained by anonymity. Hidden assassins and shadowy saboteurs thus roam free.
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