ISRO Scientist Is Pleased With The SC’s Decision To Revoke Police Officers’ Bail
Nambi Narayanan, a former ISRO scientist, was pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Kerala High Court’s judgment to give anticipatory bail to four individuals, including a former director general of police (DGP), in a case involving the 1994 ISRO espionage.
In a case involving the alleged framing of Narayanan in the 1994 ISRO espionage, the Kerala High Court had previously granted anticipatory bail to four individuals, including former Gujarat DGP R B Sreekumar, two former police officers from Kerala, S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt, and retired intelligence official P S Jayaprakash. On December 2, the Apex Court reversed this decision and remanded the case back to
The High Court’s decision granting bail to Sreekumar, Vijayan, Durga Dutt, and a retired intelligence official, P S Jayaprakash, was appealed by the CBI.
At the time, Sreekumar served as the Intelligence Bureau’s deputy director.
Narayanan expressed optimism that the High Court will issue a fair ruling.
On the CBI’s plea in the case, the top court had given notice in November of last year.
The agency had claimed that its investigation had revealed that some scientists had been subjected to torture and had been falsely implicated in an espionage case, which had hampered the development of cryogenic engines and delayed India’s space program by almost one or two decades.
The accused were allegedly members of a group that had ulterior motives to thwart the ISRO’s attempts to produce the cryogenic engine, according to earlier claims made by the CBI.
In conjunction with the arrest and custody of Narayanan in the espionage case, the CBI has filed a complaint against 18 people for a number of offenses, including criminal conspiracy.
The case, which made news in 1994, involved accusations that two scientists and four other people, including two Maldivian women, transferred some classified documents about India’s space program to foreign nations.
After receiving a clean bill of health from the CBI, Narayanan had previously claimed that the Kerala police had fabricated the case against him and that the technology he was charged with stealing and selling in the 1994 case did not even exist at the time.
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