Recently, a scarp was discovered in Mayapuri area which generates gamma radiations. Scientists from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and experts from National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), along with Delhi Police had begun a search operation to trace the people who had visited Deepak's shop in the past two weeks. Experts hold opinion that there can be more people who had been affected by radioactive waste.

Dr B Bhattacharjee, member of NDMA, said there is a huge probability of large number of people affected by the scarp because scarp was present in the shop for many days and several people must have visited the shop during its presence. Our team is waiting for the patients to become stable so that they can be asked few questions regarding people who work at their shop or had visited their shop.

Dr Bhattacharjee also points out that investigating agencies also looking forward for a support from local traders and workers in tracking the culprits. Investigating agencies want to know the people working in the market area who had visited the shop at some point of time. Agencies will soon start working on the project as they are still analyzing the degree of episode.

Dr Bhattacharjee also said that experts view that if a person was sitting in Jain's shop for a longer interval and that too near the scrap (Cobalt 60) in that case he would have absorbed high degree of gamma radiation resulting in blackening of skin. The exposure to the cobalt 60 varies depending on the duration of exposure and distance from the source.

Bhattacharjee suggested that these scrap dealers should install radiation monitoring devices in their working area to keep a regular check on the level of radiations in their area. He said that this is the first time Delhi has faced such a menace. Cobalt 60 is found to be the source of radioactive gamma radiations. These gamma rays have high penetration power so they are considered as the most harmful form of radiation.

It was proposed by NDMA to the Union home ministry to install radiation monitoring instruments in Police vans in all metropolitan cities and towns with 20 lakh of population.

These instruments would cost around Rs 70,000-Rs 75,000 and will be mounted on the Police surveillance vans to monitor the radiation levels in different locations. If these vans observe any kind of radiation leakage then a frequent action can be taken to reach the zero ground. Once the home ministry shows green signal these instruments will be facilitated to about 20 police vans around the city.

All the investigation agencies are looking for the source from where Jain got the scrap but till now they can only locate that Jain has got this scrap from Faridabad.