Nambi Narayanan expresses happiness over SC decision quashing bail of cops

Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan on Friday expressed happiness over the Supreme Court order quashing a Kerala High Court decision granting anticipatory bail to four people including a former Director General of Police DGP in a case related to the 1994 ISRO espionageQuashing an earlier order of the Kerala HC granting anticipatory bail to four people including former Gujarat DGP R B Sreekumar two former police officers of Kerala S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt and a retired intelligence official P S Jayaprakash in a case of alleged frameup of Narayanan in the 1994 ISRO espionage the Apex Court on Friday remanded the matter back to the High Court and directed it to decide the issue within four weeksThe judgement came on the CBIs appeal against the High Court order granting bail to Sreekumar Vijayan and Durga Dutt and a retired intelligence official P S JayaprakashSreekumar was then the Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau IBNarayanan expressed hope that the High Court will come out with a proper judgementI am happy to hear about the Supreme Court order Now that the matter has been reverted to the High Court I hope that it will come out with a proper judgement Narayanan told PTIAlso Read Give us once chance to clean corrupt MCD Arvind Kejriwal to votersThe apex court had in November last year issued notice on the CBIs plea filed in the matterThe agency had said its probe found that some scientists were tortured and framed in the espionage case due to which the development of cryogenic engine was hit setting back Indias space programme by almost one or two decadesThe CBI earlier alleged there was a clear indication that the accused were part of a team which had ulterior motives to torpedo the attempts of the ISRO for manufacturing the cryogenic engineWhile granting anticipatory bail to these four accused on August 13 last year the High Court had said There is not even a scintilla of evidence regarding the petitioners being influenced by any foreign power so as to induce them to hatch a conspiracy to falsely implicate the scientists of the ISRO with the intention to stall the activities of the ISRO with regard to the development of the cryogenic engineIt had said unless there is specific material regarding their involvement prima facie it cannot be said that they were acting against the interests of the countryThe CBI has registered a case against 18 people for various offences including criminal conspiracy in connection with the arrest and detention of Narayanan in the espionage caseThe case which had hit the headlines in 1994 pertained to allegations of transfer of certain confidential documents on Indias space programme to foreign countries by two scientists and four others including two Maldivian womenNarayanan who was given a clean chit by the CBI had earlier alleged that the Kerala police had fabricated the case and the technology he was accused to have stolen and sold in the 1994 case did not even exist at that timeThe CBI had said the then top police officials in Kerala were responsible for Narayanans illegal arrest The apex court had on September 14 2018 appointed a threemember committee while directing the Kerala government to cough up a Rs 50 lakh compensation for compelling Narayanan to undergo immense humiliationTerming the police action against the exscientist of the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO psychopathological treatment the apex court had in September 2018 said his liberty and dignityiquest basic to his human rights were jeopardised as he was taken into custody and eventually despite all the glory of the past was compelled to face cynical abhorrenceThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever