Thread by @ihailmyindia

#Rocketry is going to help
Indians acknowledge scientists plight

In a 15yr period,ISRO lost 684 personnel
Nambi Narayanan, accused of passing cryogenic programme secret.But in d year 1996, CBI cleared all d accused n it also concluded that entire case was fabricated by Kerala👮‍♀️

He is K Chandrashekhar

Along with nambi,he was also arrested by Kerala Police.He was Indian representative in Russian Space agency
D sad thing is dat he doesn't even knowing dat d case against him was dropped n he is now acquitted from all charges but he closed his 👀 before dat

Vikram Sarabhai who was Indian physicist and nuclear scientist found dead in the hotel room in 1971 for no apparent reason

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, called as a ‘Father of Indian Nuclear Program’. He died in one plane crash in Switzerland near Mt. Blanc. Interestingly he was killed after a week when he made statement “🇮🇳 could produce a nuclear device in a short time.”

Lokanathan Mahalingam who worked at Kaiga Atomic Power Station went missing from his morning walk on June 8, 2009. After 5 days, his dead body was found from the river Kali.lHe had access of India’s some sensitive nuclear information. Not sure about it’s suicide/murder/kidnapping

Ravi Mule who worked for Nuclear Power Corporation was also killed

He was found in a forest but the police was unable to trace the reason for their death

M Padmanabhan Iyer and Uma Rao who were engineers at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) were also killed in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Partha Pratim Bag and Umang Singh who were scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) found burnt in modular lab of Radiation and Photochemistry department in 2009. It is mysterious that how they got because no inflammable thing was found in Lab

KK Josh n Abhish Shivam, both of whom were working on India’s first indigenous nuclear ballistic submarine, INS Arihant, were found dead on railway tracks by workers. No marks were found on bodies, it was clear they hadn't been hit by a train , n reports allege they were poisoned

It’s not just in 🇮🇳 that scientists are dying mysterious deaths

In Iran, scientists working on d covert nuclear programme hv been murdered with alarming regularity

Ardeshir Hossein-Pour died of ‘gas suffocation’ while Massoud Ali Mohammadi died in a bomb blast

Iran gave heavy security cover when d systematic killings came to light

Unfortunately, 🇮🇳 hasn’t learnt d lessons
There has been next to no media coverage of these deaths n suicides

But apparently, losing ppl who r imp to national interest is a thing India seems to be fine with