Tapan Mishra, who is a top ISRO scientist, on Tuesday claimed that he was poisoned around three years ago,news agency PTI reported.
The scientist alleged that during a promotion interview at ISRO headquarter in Bengaluru, he was poisoned with arsenic trioxide on May 23, 2017.
According to him, a fatal dose was probably mixed with chutney along with Dosa in snacks after lunch.
Mishra in a Facebook post titled "Long Kept Secret" claimed that Home Affairs security personnel met him and alerted him of arsenic poisoning and helped doctors to focus on the remedy in July 2017.
He also said that he later suffered various health issues including severe breathing difficulty, unusual skin eruptions, skin shedding, and fungal infections.
"The motive appears to be espionage attack to remove a scientist with critical contribution of very large military and commercial significance, like expertise in building Synthetic Aperture Radar," he alleged.
The ISRO scientist said that he wants the government of India to investigate the matter.
Attaching his medical report with his Facebook post he claimed that he had been diagnosed with Arsenic toxication by the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
Tapan Mishra is currently working as Senior Advisor at ISRO and he is retiring at the end of this month. Earlier, he served as Director of Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
