Delhi High Court notices to AIIMS, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre on researcher's petition The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on a petition by a researcher seeking a direction to the BARC to perform a scan to measure the extent of nuclear radiation in his body. The petitioner, Devi Deen Pandey, submitted that he had been affected by radiation after taking tea laced with the radio active material, Strontium 90. Issuing the notices, Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked the respondents to file replies to the petition by September 13, the next date of hearing. The petitioner is a post-graduate in Environmental Sciences. He had joined the Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology at Hisar in Haryana, a joint centre of BARC and the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, for research. The petitioner alleged that some persons at Hisar conspired and mixed the hazardous and radioactive substance in his cup of tea which he consumed unknowingly. “Strontium 90 is a toxic radioactive substance and in case it enters into a human body, it accumulates within the bone marrow and over a period of time may cause certain type of cancers/tumors of the bone and of the blood cell,” the petitioner claimed. He submitted that he went to AIIMS and the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai for a test to ascertain the extent of the radiation in his body after he came to know that he had been affected by it. However, he was told at the two premium medical institutes that they were not equipped to do the test. He moved the Court after he failed to get a response from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the petition said. ‘File replies by September 13’ Failed to get a reply from the PMO