On June 13 2009, IndiaтАЩs television channels reported the death of Lokanathan Mahalingam, a not-so-well-known nuclear scientist.┬аMahalingam was working for eight years in the Kaiga atomic power station, located in the South Indian State of Karnataka
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Uma Narasimha Rao, aged 63 and a retired scientist of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), committed suicide at her house at Govandi owing to chronic depression. In a suicide note, she said none was to be blamed for her тАЬextreme step.тАЭ 2011
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Another employee of the Nuclear Power Corporation India Ltd, Ravi Mule, went missing and was later declared murdered. His brother made his own efforts to investigate after police failed to make any headway.┬а
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On February 2010, M Iyer, an engineer working with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, was found dead in his residence. Police investigations reached a dead end, with forensic experts declaring, as in all cases of unexplained deaths of employees involved in nuclear programme
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KK Joshi and Abhish Shivam, engineers on the indigenous nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant, were found dead on railway tracks in Visakhapatnam in October 2013
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Two young researchers, Umang Singh and Partha Pratim Bag, were burnt to death in a mysterious fire in the modular lab of the Bhabha Atomic Research CentreтАЩs (BARC) radiation and photochemistry department on December 30th 2009
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Mohammad Mustafa, 24, a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (IGCAR) was found dead in his quarters at Kalpakkam with his wrists slashed in 2012
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A 27-year-old Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) scientist allegedly committed suicide at Trombay in suburban┬аMumbai. Titus Pal was found hanging from the ventilator of her flat on the 14th floor of Niligiri building on the BARC campus. PalтАЩs father Subrato (57) told cops
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that his daughter was alright when she left Kolkata and reached Mumbai and resumed work around 10 am on 3 March. She killed herself the same evening. Pal allegedly ended her life three days after she celebrated her birthday with her family at Kolkata. The matter came to light
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after she didnтАЩt respond to her fatherтАЩs phone call
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A senior scientist with the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in Salt Lake died in a hospital after allegedly consuming mercuric chloride the previous day
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Ashutosh Sharma and Soumik Chowdhary scientists, committed suicide by hanging in 2010.
Akshay P Chavan, an employee, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the balcony of his flat in April 2010.
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Subhash Sonawane, a tradesman of the waste management division, was suspected to have committed suicide in April 2010. According to BARC officials, Sonawane was undergoing treatment for schizophrenia. His body was recovered from a well in MumbaiтАЩs Anushakti Nagar.
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In 2008, Jaswant Rao, an assistant mechanical engineer in Indian Rare Earths, was suspected to have taken his life.
A year later, Tirumala Prasad Tenka, a scientist with the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology at Indore, hung himself at his residence.
2 more bodies found on railway track
at Penduruthy near Vishakapatnam Abhish Shivam, 33 was a chief engineer working at INS Arihant, IndiaтАЩs first nuclear-powered submarine.┬а KK Joshi, 34 was chief engine room artificer (CERA) at Shipbuilding Centre, a unit of ministry of
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Defence at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC).
G K Kumaravel, an Arjun tank developer died in a car crash
And many more
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Conclusion
Scientists working at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre have been particularly liable to тАЬsuicidesтАЭ and murders . In each case, the unnatural death in question gets passed off as either a suicide or an unexplained killing.
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