New Delhi, May 5 (Inditop.com) A day after the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) demanded the resignation of the vice chancellor over the radiation leak fiasco, the university’s teachers’ association Wednesday staged a rally making a similar demand.
The teachers also sought an impartial enquiry into the incident, which caused the death of one person and radioactive burn injuries to seven others.
The radiation leak was reported more than a fortnight ago from a scrap market in Mayapuri area of west Delhi. Police said the source of the leak was a radioactive gamma cell containing Cobalt-60 that was auctioned as scrap by Delhi University’s chemistry department two months ago.
Aditya Narayan Mishra, president of the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA), said: “Our main demand through the protest today (Wednesday) is an impartial enquiry into the case which has caused the death of a person because of gross negligence in proper disposal of radioactive waste materials.”
Saying that the vice chancellor of the university, Deepak Pental, should take responsibility of the case and step down, Mishra said: “In order to ensure an impartial enquiry, the vice chancellor who directly shares administrative and legal responsibility, must resign.”
DUSU had Tuesday demanded that the VC of the university should step down from his post and a police case be lodged against him for irresponsibility and gross negligence.
