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Dr. S.K. Salwan as a quid pro quo for his act of giving clean chit to Dr. Arun Kumar on the charges of corruption done by him in getting his own daughter Swati Srivastava recruited as Scientist ‘B’

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To,                                                                                    4th December 2013
The CPIO
DRDO HQ, Room No. 314-A
Rajaji Marg, New Delhi-110105

Hello,
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in respect of following information requests.

  1. Provide certified copy of the DY No 2335/MOD/FIN (R&D)/ 07 dated 26-07-2007 issued by Ministry of Defence (Finance/R&D)
  2. Provide certified copy of the document of ID No. 988/FIN (R&D) dated 08-11-2010 of Ministry of Defence (Finance/R&D).
  3.  Provide certified copy of the UO No. IFA/R&D/1236/0252 dated 27-12-2012 of IFA (R&D).
  4.  Provide the certified copy of the concerned document (i.e. concerned note sheets) of the concerned file of DRDO in which proposal, processing of the proposal & approval of the proposal for deletion of the para 7 of the O.M. No. ERIP/ER/0706100/M/01/1719/D
    (R&D) dated 01-08-2007 is contained.

This deletion of the para 7 of the O.M. No.ERIP/ER/0706100/M/01/1719/D (R&D) dated 01-08-2007 was not guided by public interest but solely by conferring undue benefit to  Dr. S.K. Salwan as a quid pro quo for his act of giving clean chit to Dr. Arun Kumar on the charges of corruption done by him in getting his own daughter Swati Srivastava recruited as Scientist ‘B’ in 2004 directly resorting to corrupt practices. As you aware because of this corrupt act honorable defence minister suspended Dr Arun Kumar, Ex DOP, DRDO and matter recommended for further inquiry to CBI on 29th October 2013

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Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur
Dehradun-248008
Phone 0135- 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
e-mail id prabhudoon@gmail.com  website www.corruptionindrdo.com

Registration Number – MODEF/R/2013/61027

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यौन उत्पीड़न में फंसे वैज्ञानिक का समर्पण – Dainik Jagran

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Updated on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:40 AM (IST)
नई दुनिया, ग्वालियर। शोध छात्रा के यौन उत्पीड़न में फंसे रक्षा अनुसंधान और विकास संगठन (डीआरडीओ) के वैज्ञानिक प्रभात गर्ग ने मंगलवार को पुलिस के समक्ष समर्पण कर दिया। कोर्ट ने उन्हें दो दिन की पुलिस हिरासत में भेज दिया।

2010 -2011 के दौरान डीआरडीओ में शोध करने आई कर्नाटक की एक छात्रा ने 30 नवंबर को वैज्ञानिक के खिलाफ यौन उत्पीड़न की शिकायत दर्ज कराई थी।

वैज्ञानिक प्रभात गर्ग ने पुलिस को बताया कि वह निर्दोष हैं और साजिश के तहत उन्हें फंसाया जा रहा है, जबकि छात्रा ने आरोप लगाए हैं कि वैज्ञानिक ने शोध पूरा न कराने की धमकी देकर उसके साथ छेड़छाड़ की और प्रेम संबंध बनाने का दबाव डाला।

शोध की अहमियत को देखते हुए उस दौरान वह शांत रही। लेकिन जब छात्रा को शादी के बाद भी वैज्ञानिक एसएमएस भेजकर परेशान करने लगा तो उसने विश्वविद्यालय थाने में शिकायत दर्ज करा दी। इसके बाद गर्ग गायब हो गए थे लेकिन परिजनों पर बढ़ते दबाव की वजह से उन्होंने समर्पण कर दिया।

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Sexual harassment case: DRDE scientist Prabhat Garg surrenders -DNA

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Tuesday, Dec 3, 2013, 19:34 IST | Place: Gwalior | Agency: PTI

Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) scientist Prabhat Garg, against whom a research scholar has levelled allegations of sexual harassment, on Tuesday surrendered before police here.

Police said Garg turned himself in to University Police Station, reportedly after pressure built up on him by police and also his family members.

In her complaint, the research scholar had accused Garg of sexually harassing her during 2010-11 when she was pursuing her work under him at the city-based institution.

Police said the woman discontinued her research due to “uncomfortable situation” she was experiencing under her guide, that is Garg, and also for her marriage.

The woman suffered sexual harassment quietly till her marriage and also because of her career but when Garg allegedly did not spare her even after her marriage, she disclosed the matter to her husband.

The couple then reached Gwalior and lodged a complaint with police who in turn registered an FIR against Garg under sections sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506-B (punishment for criminal intimidation) of IPC.

Garg was produced before a local court which remanded him two-day police custody.

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Don’t delay Light Combat Aircraft project: Anthony to DRDO

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Rajat Pandit, TNN Nov 6, 2013, 08.19PM IST
NEW DELHI: Defence minister A K Antony on Wednesday directed the DRDO to ensure that the operational deadlines for the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, first sanctioned 30 years to replace the ageing MiG-21s, are not delayed yet again.

Addressing the parliamentary consultative committee on defence, Antony said the under-development indigenous fighter’s initial operational clearance (IOC) planned for next month and the final operational clearance (FOC) in December 2014 should be “completed on schedule”.With DRDO currently handling as many as 532 projects, the minister asked DRDO to “mainly concentrate on high-end research, particularly in critical and strategic areas”. DRDO should invest more time and resources in fundamental research, lay more emphasis on major mission-mode programmes for the armed forces and pool together resources and talent available in academic and other R&D institutions, he said.

The long-running developmental sagas of the Tejas fighter and Arjun main-battle tank have come to symbolize the huge delays and cost-overruns dogging virtually all major projects of DRDO. While the MPs lauded DRDO’s success in the field of missiles, they were “bitterly critical” of the delay in such projects.

As earlier reported by TOI, the single-engine Tejas is unlikely to become fully combat-worthy anytime before end-2015. When the Tejas project was first sanctioned in 1983, the initial project cost was pegged at Rs 560 crore. The overall programme will now cost upwards of Rs 25,000 crore if the naval variant, trainer and the failed Kaveri engine are also taken into account.

It was in January 2011 that Tejas got IOC-I, which was initially heralded as the “full and final IOC” by the combine of DRDO, Aeronautical Development Agency and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd till better sense prevailed. The fighter can be certified as fully airworthy only after it passes the IOC-II stage.

The light-weight Tejas will be ready to go to war only after the FOC, which will include integration of all weapons and other systems to ensure it can fire guns, rockets, laser-guided bombs and BVR (beyond visual range) missiles as well as undergo air-to-air refuelling.

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India-Israel joint venture to manufacture missiles fails to take off

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Jatinder Kaur Tur, TNN Nov 14, 2013, 12.01PM IST

HYDERABAD: The joint venture between India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Israeli Aerospace Industry to manufacture Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LR SAM) and Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MR-SAM) has turned out to be a non-starter.

The long range missiles were to have been delivered to the Indian Navy by 2012 while the medium range missiles should be in the Indian Air Force weaponry by 2017. However, both the delivery schedules are way behind schedule and show no signs of meeting them even in the near future.DRDO officials are blaming the lack of progress in the joint venture due to lack of transparency and non-transfer of technology by their Israeli counterparts. And the recent trials that were conducted by the Indian defence organization failed to meet the standards of both the IAF and the Indian Navy. The entire cost of Rs 12,500 crore of the joint venture is being funded by India and the inordinate delay and lack of progress in the project has turned into a big cause of worry in the defence ministry.

According to sources, the LR-SAMs project was commissioned in 2006 and the delivery of the missiles to the Indian Navy should have happened by 2012. Similarly, the MR-SAM venture was signed in 2009 and the missiles are to be delivered to the Indian Air Force by 2017. Both both the projects are way behind schedule and show no signs of making progress.

“Frankly speaking, right now, not much is going on in the joint venture due to various issues between the two sides. Expecting Israel to share its technology with India is unfair. But such things should have been clarified before the joint venture was entered into,” said an official.

DRDO is maintaining that it is because of the lack of transfer of technology that the trials conducted so far have ended up as failures. “Industries are merely getting the drawings as to how to produce certain systems and such things are leading to deviations from the laid down specifications because the knowledge to develop the systems is not being imparted,” said sources.

DRDO officials are also attributing the delay to a complicated and long procedure involving shuttling between India and Israel for various stages of development of a system etc. The Hyderabad-based Indian defence organization also reportedly found itself helpless on problems in propulsion system and other related issues while a significant number of parts or systems are yet to be tested following a delay in manufacturing.

However, when quizzed on the issue, DRDO Director General Avinash Chander told the TOI that nothing was amiss. “Everything is going on as per the plan and development trials are on. We shall be able to deliver the MR-SAMs as per schedule. Right now, the contribution from India in the joint venture project is about 20% and would ultimately reach 80% in the final stages.” Regarding the already delayed LR-SAM, DRDO officials declined to come on record.

MR-SAM, one of the major demands of the forces, is to have a range of 70 kms or so, and the IAF is banking on replacing its ageing Soviet-made Pechora SAM missiles with the MR-SAMs. But nobody is sure how long the wait is going to be, and whether the delivery will take place at all.

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Scientist held for raping wife in Raipur – Parda Phash

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Published by: Urvashi Singhal 

Published on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 at 04:59 IST

Raipur: It seems that the court’s decision on granting death penalty to the Delhi Gang rape accused is very less, as the male section is not realizing as to what they are turning our society into, by not stopping but continuously committing the most heinous crime that is ‘Rape’. As per reports, a Defence Research and Development Organization scientist Majumdar has been accused of raping his 30-year-old wife in Raipur, today, September 23.

The news was confirmed by Raipur’s Superintendent of Police O P Pal, he said, “A case has been lodged case against Tapas Kumar Majumdar, who is working with food research laboratory wing of DRDO, on the complaint lodged by his 30-year-old wife this evening.”

The complainant who works as a school teacher was married to the scientist in 2011 and she had no information regarding the status of his first marriage. The only thing she knew was that her husband had divorced his first wife, but later on she came to know that he had not divorced his first wife.

The accused has been booked under IPC sections 376 (rape), 419 (cheating by personation), 496 (marrying fraudulently) and 498 (A) (subjecting wife to cruelty).

The police are still investigating into the matter.

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Scientist seeks sexual favours, booked in MP – Times of India

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TNN | Dec 2, 2013, 05.49 AM IST

BHOPAL: A senior scientist at the Defence Research & Development Establishment (DRDE) in Gwalior has been accused of stalking, blackmailing and seeking sexual favours from a fellow researcher.

A complaint lodged with the police on Saturday.

Scientist Prabhat Garg was harassing his fellow researcher for the last three years, said police. She joined DRDE Gwalior in 2010 to pursue research.

The complainant later got married and settled in Karnataka two years ago. But Garg allegedly continued stalking and making calls and sending texts to her.

She told her husband and subsequently filed a complaint after which Garg was booked.

Superintendent of police Santosh Singh said case is being investigated and a team would be sent to Delhi to question Garg.

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DRDE scientist charged with stalking researcher – Times of India

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TNN | Dec 2, 2013, 11.46 AM IST
BHOPAL: A senior scientist at the Defence Research & Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior has been accused of stalking, blackmailing and forcing his fellow researcher for sexual favours.

According to complaint lodged with the police on Saturday, scientist Prabhat Garg was harassing his fellow researcher for the last three years. She was in DRDE Gwalior in 2010 for research work, said police.

The complainant later got married and settled in Karnataka two years ago. But, Garg allegedly continued stalking her making calls and sending texts on her cellphone. She informed about it to her husband, and subsequently got a complaint lodged at the University road police station. Garg has been booked under Section 354 of IPC.

Superintendent of police (SP) Santosh Singh said case is being investigated and a team would be sent to Delhi to question Garg. Meanwhile, Garg’s father and wife reached university road police station and inquired about the case. Police have asked them to support the investigation.

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अब यौन उत्‍पीड़न के मामले में फंसे डीआरडीई के सीनियर साइंटिस्‍ट – One India

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Posted by: Ankur Kumar Published: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 14:05 [IST]

भोपाल। मध्य प्रदेश के ग्वालियर स्थित रक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास स्थापना (डीआरडीई) के वरिष्ठ वैज्ञानिक प्रभात गर्ग पर एक शोधार्थी से छेड़छाड़ करने का आरोप लगा है। पुलिस ने पीड़िता की शिकायत पर प्रकरण दर्ज कर लिया है। डीआरडीई रक्षा शोध एवं विकास संगठन संगठन (डीआरडीओ) की एक प्रयोगशाला है, जिसका गठन डीआरडीओ के जीवन विज्ञान निदेशालय के तहत किया गया है। डीआरडीई जहरीले रसायन और जैविक एजेंट पर शोध करती है। पुलिस से मिली जानकारी के अनुसार एक विवाहित युवती ने शनिवार की रात को अपने परिजनों के साथ विश्वविद्यालय थाना पहुंचकर छेड़छाड़ की शिकायत दर्ज कराई है। इस शिकायत में कहा गया है कि वह वर्ष 2010-11 में डीआरडीई में शोधार्थी के तौर पर कार्य करने आई थी। तब प्रभात गर्ग ने उससे कई बार छेड़छाड़ की थी। शिकायत में आगे कहा गया है कि उसकी कर्नाटक में शादी हुई और वह वहां चली गई, इसके बावजूद गर्ग ने उसे फोन किए और ब्लैक मेल करने की धमकी दी। इस स्थिति से उसने अपने परजनों को बताया और उनके साथ ग्वालियर पहुंचकर रिपोर्ट दर्ज कराई। अतिरिक्त पुलिस अधीक्षक वीरेंद्र जैन ने रविवार को बताया है कि पीड़िता की शिकायत पर गर्ग के खिलाफ प्रकरण दर्ज कर लिया गया है। गर्ग फिलहाल ग्वालियर में नहीं है, पुलिस उनकी तलाशी कर रही है।