A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to five Delhi University professors in connection with the Mayapuri Radiation leak case, in which a man died due to exposure to radioactive substance at a scrap market here in 2010.
Metropolitan Magistrate granted bail to Dean of Sciences Roop Laal and professors Rita Kakkar, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Kumar Prasad and Rakesh Kumar.
The head of Chemistry department V S Parmar was granted exemption from personal appearance on medical grounds.
The court had earlier summoned six professors after Delhi police filed the chargesheet accusing them of endangering the lives by auctioning a radioactive cobalt-60 gamma irradiator without mandatory precautions.
All the accused have been booked under various provisions dealing with causing death by rash and negligent acts and causing grievous injuries. In April 2010, a person died and seven people were injured after they were exposed to radiation when they had cut open a cobalt-60 irradiator at the scrap market here.