New Delhi, April 30: The Delhi University has announced a compensation of Rs 8 lakhs to the family of the deceased, a job for his widow and Rs 2 lakhs each to the six patients undergoing treatment at various hospitals in the city. 

Earlier, a team of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and the National Disaster Management Authority visited the shop of Harcharan Singh Bhola, the scrap dealer who had bought the gamma cell irradiator in a Delhi University auction, in Mayapuri late on Thursday night.
The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) demanded that the vice chancellor should step down for enabling a fair probe.
DUTA president Aditya Narayan Misra said that the teachers would write to President Pratibha Patil, seeking a visitorial inquiry. “The President, as the visitor of the institution, should constitute a committee of experts to examine the case and fix the blame,” he said.
There were reports that several cobalt-60 pencils were missing from the irradiator. Though experts felt that most of these pencils may have been used in experiments when the machine was in use, they wanted to be sure that all those missing were accounted for.
The experts had earlier detected 11 sources of radiation at the Mayapuri scrap market.
Deputy commissioner of police (west) Sharad Agrawal said that it was a precautionary search and nothing untoward came out of it.
A team of AERB also visited the Delhi University to check out the place where, according to a professor, nearly 20 kg of radioactive substance was dumped into the ground. This place was supposed to be behind the laboratory where the gamma cell irradiator was kept. Prof. Ramesh Chandra had alleged that the university was not equipped to handle disposal of radioactive waste.
The AERB had on Thursday suspended the permission to DU to use radioactive substances for academic purposes. The report about radioactive substance being dumped into the ground is awaited.
DUTA alleged that the probe committee constituted by the Delhi University authorities was not competent to handle the matter.
 

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