Mayapuri radiation leak: court grants bail to 5 DU professors

The court had summoned six professors after the Delhi Police had filed the chargesheet accusing them of endangering the lives by auctioning a radioactive Cobalt-60 gamma irradiator without mandatory precautions.

While five of them were granted bail, one was allowed exemption from personal appearance in the case till further order.

The Dean of Sciences Roop Laal and professors Rita Kakkar, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Kumar Prasad and Rakesh Kumar appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen while Head of Chemistry Department V S Parmar was granted exemption from personal appearance on medical grounds. (more)