The government stopped the police from releasing information about the recovery of radioactive material to the media
Friday, November 8, 2024
New Delhi ( News International News Latest - NNI. 08 November 2024) India has stopped the police from giving information in this regard to the media after Pakistan expressed strong concern on the theft and illegal sale of radioactive materials. According to Kashmir Media Service, incidents of theft, export and sale of radioactive material are common in India.
Pakistan has repeatedly expressed serious concern over the reports of export of radioactive nuclear materials in India and has asked the Indian government for a complete and detailed explanation on the reports of export of radioactive materials such as californium. They should issue police instructions not to let information about the recovery of illegal nuclear and other radioactive materials reach the media.
The Ministry of Home Affairs of India has said in the instructions sent to the state governments that the confirmation of radiation in the exported materials is done after various analyzes and tests and making a statement in the media before the confirmation process would have brought the country into disrepute at the international level. The BBC quoted the Indian daily Indian Express as saying that the Ministry of Home Affairs has recently expressed concern in an official letter sent to the chief secretaries, police chiefs and police commissioners of the states, in which the state police Releases statements to the press before radioactive materials are confirmed on scientific grounds in a laboratory.
Although the Home Ministry did not refer to any specific incident in the letter, it said that certain elements of the news had raised concerns about India's safeguards and regulations for safeguarding nuclear and radioactive materials at the international level. A Home Ministry directive has asked all police personnel to refer the discovery of a suspected radioactive material to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board for scientific analysis before making any statement to the press. From his Issue a statement only after confirmation.
In August this year, in the Indian state of Bihar, the police recovered 50 grams of radioactive material californium from the possession of three persons in Gopalganj district. It is a rare radioactive material and its value was estimated at 850 crore rupees. The Superintendent of Police of Gopalganj told a news conference that these smugglers had been trying to sell the substance for several months and a laboratory test report of the substance was also recovered from them.
It should be noted that on the recovery of suspected nuclear materials in India, police officials used to inform the media about it by holding a press conference and in some recent cases such persons were also brought before the media whose possession of suspected radioactive material was recovered and The media was also allowed to take pictures of the material.
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