Indian Nuke Proliferation – Abduction of Mahalingam

Indian famous nuke scientist Lokanathan Mahalingam mysteriously disappeared from the Kaiga Atomic Power Station on June 8, 2009. The Kaiga plant is located near one of the biggest naval bases, Project Seabird.

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The scientist was working on the atomic plant since last eight years. Reportedly, he was in possession of highly sensitive information and might be doubted for Indian nuke proliferation. Mahalingam was involved in training apprentices on a replica of the actual reactor. So he had knowledge of the working of the reactor.

According to the times of India the Mahalingam went on morning jogging and has been missing since then. As per his family members, he did not carry money or his cell phone with him and went for walk whereas the security guards on duty said that they haven’t seen him leaving the campus. It is mentionable here that he was also disappeared 10 years back once was working at the Kalpakkam atomic station and returned to home after spending about five days. On his return, he expressed that he had gone to seek spiritual solace.

About six weeks ago, another NPC non-technical employee Ravi Mule was found dead in the township. He too had gone for morning walk. Police have not cracked the case so far. The police and plant officials are still clueless about his whereabouts. Reportedly, RAW and IB are investigating the matter of increase of cases of Nuclear Proliferation, Thus, there are country wide rumors prevailing in the staff working in the nuclear projects that intelligence agencies might pick up some more staff and scientists to identify the actual culprits involved in the Uranium theft cases.

The above incident of abduction of the scientist and murder of one of the staff member again confirmed that the security of Indian nuclear programme is highly questionable since its inception. Global powers and IAEA has also showed concern over the kidnapping of the scientist. It is also mentionable here that 152 theft cases of uranium have been reported and registered with the police since 1984.

Indian top listed companies remained engage in illegal importing and exporting of nuclear equipments. For example Berkeley Nucleonic Corporation (BNC), an American company was fined US $ 300,000 for exporting a nuclear component to the Bhaba Atomic Research Center in India and also in December 2005, United States imposed sanctions on two Indian firms for selling missile goods and chemical arms material to Iran in violation of India’s commitment to prevent proliferation.

In the same year, Indian scientists, Dr. Surendar and Y. S. R. Prasad had been blacklisted by the US due to their involvement in nuclear theft. Despite expelling of said two scientists, no decrease in cases of Indian nuclear proliferation has been observed. However, India did not made any issue out of it and preferred to keep quite. Again, in December, 2006, a container packed with radioactive material had been stolen from an Indian fortified research atomic facility near Mumbai.

In nutshell, the suspecious activities of the Indian nuke scientists and the staff working on the nuclear plants are quite alarming for the global security and peace.

There is a general perception in the local masses and nuclear analysts that Indian nuclear program is totally in unsafe hands. The nuclear programme became a hazards to the mankind because of continue leakage of information, accidents and stealing of uranium. The American nuclear experts have also showed the serious concern over the US – India nuclear pact which was concluded by Bush Administration in 2008.

Reliable sources reveal that Obama administration is quite seriously thinking over the revision of nuclear pact with New Delhi.

The recent release of US document on the internet is another security concern in the serious circles of the Washington. The list includes both government and civilian nuclear facilities and covering the details and location of nation's 103 commercial nuclear power reactors. The equipment useful in preparation of nuclear device is available in the open American’s markets and reportedly being sold to Indian organization illegally.

Thus it is evident from the above narrated facts that the release of US nukes document, selling of equipment in local American market, theft cases of Indian Uranium, disappearance and abduction of Indian Senior Nuke Scientist seem to be correlated to each other. Probably, there are chances that a chain of International nuclear smugglers headed by some Indian boss / authority is in action from their headquarters located in India. The transferring of nuke technology unlawfully to Israel and India has been instrumented through this underworld organization.

Interestingly, KGB and CIA though remained dagger drawn with each other on the nuke issue but never tried to unearth the Indian – Israel nuke capability in detail. Some nuke defence and political analyst reveled that the new cold war between Russia and US has again been started. The release of American documents on internet might be done by some KGB agents present in pentagon. It is also a known fact that Indian nuke programme have been launched with help of former USSR. It is also possible that the kidnapped scientist would be having connection with Russia. Thus CIA abducted him to know the actual facts and information of Indian nuke programme.

In short, IAEA should have an eye over the Indian nuclear program. UNO should prove her worth to stop Indian nuclear proliferation which is becoming quite risky day by day. The US watch dog (IAEA) should help India in stopping the world most dangerous proliferation. At the same time US should depute some intelligence agency to carry out detailed investigation with the view to further proliferation of her nuclear equipment in the local markets to rest of the world.