On the plea by researcher Devi Deen Pandey, working with a Haryana-based university, the high court sought the replies of the Centre and others.
"Issue notice to respondents (Ministry of Health), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and BARC for September 13," said Justice Rajiv Shakdher, issuing notice on petition by Pandey, who had pleaded that he be sent to Bhaba Atomic Research Centre to ascertain the extent of radiation suffered by him at his institute at Hissar in Haryana.
In his petition, Devi Deen Pandey said he had been running from one hospital to another for proper treatment, but without much relief.
Pandey, a post graduate in Environmental Sciences, had joined Hissar-based Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology at Hissar, a joint centre of BARC and the Board of Research on Nuclear Sciences, said the petition filed through advocate Atul Wadera.
The course in-charge did not want Pandey to continue with his research and asked him to leave, said the petition adding they mixed the "hazardous and radioactive Strontium in a liquid form in cups of tea which the petitioner used to consume without knowing that those were contaminated."
"Strontium 90 is a toxic radioactive substance having a half life of about 28 years, a beta rays emitter and is one of the most hazardous products ... Which if enters the human body, it accumulates within the bone marrow and over a period of time would cause certain type of cancers/tumors of the bone and of the blood cell....," it said. (More)
