New Delhi: It is not just Sachin Tendulkar, who is facing the Public Interest Litigations (PIL) challenging the Bharat Ratna conferred on him by the government of India, eminent scientist Professor CNR Rao who has also got the highest civilian honour along with Tendulkar is facing similar opposition. A law student Tanaya Thakur and Class XII student Aditya Thakur have filed a PIL in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court challenging Bharat Ratna award to scientist Dr CNR Rao.
The petition says that Bharat Ratna is the highest award of this country and must be given after utmost scrutiny. There are many scientists like Jagdish Chandra Bose, SN Bose, Meghnad Saha, Dr Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai and others who made much more lasting and important contribution to science as compared to Dr Rao, who mostly occupied posts in government most of the time due to proximity to power.
Secondly, Dr Rao has allegedly published 1,400 research papers which is physically impossible, given the fact that one good research takes at least 6 to 8 months. He has been alleged of plagiarism of an article in foreign journal Advance Materials, for which he even apologized. Other allegations of plagiarism have been made against him for December 2011 issue of the Journal of Luminescence, January 2006 issue of Advanced Materials and another paper published in 2010 in the Applied Physics Express.
Tanaya and Aditya have said that a scientist with proven cases of plagiarism shall not be presented the highest civilian award and hence the award notification needs to be quashed.
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