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Making Quite A Bomb

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Making Quite A Bomb

How workers without intel clearance get into an explosives lab

A Defence Lab Breached?

  • The High Energy Materials Research Lab (HEMRL), Pune, has outsourced the production of TATB, an explosive, to a private firm, Viswaat, with which an ex-director of HEMRL is associated
  • The firm does not have a licence to manufacture explosives
  • Worse, the workforce—which does not have intelligence clearance—enters the HEMRL facility to carry out the work
  • Local auditors have questioned payments, attendance records etc
  • Based on anonymous complaints and these audits, the CBI is investigating all work undertaken by Viswaat Chemicals
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HEMRL: Audit report raises security doubts

PUNE I JULY 24 I 2011
Newsline  The Sunday Express

HEMRL: Audit report raises security doubts

Pranav KulkarniTags : JCDAHEMRLDRDO labHaridwar Singh Posted: Sun Jul 24 2011, 02:44 hrs Pune
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Epitome of DRDO’s Dealing with Explosive

To                                                                                            17th July 2011
The Defence Minister
Room No -104, South Block
New Delhi – 110011

Honorable Sir,

The recent serial bomb blast in Mumbai made a big question about the easy availability of such rare explosive RDX & TNT to terrorist outfit.

Please find enclosed document which shows the casual approach of HEMRL, DRDO, Pune the premier and one of the best explosive production facility of India.

While going through the document evidence and audit objection of auditor of JCDA, I found the loose end of HEMRL, DRDO, which may be one easy source for Naxalite-Maoist and Terrorist outfit to learn how to make explosive and also chance to pilferage the explosive may add to pilferage.

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