The Supreme Court Friday set apart the Kerala High Court order granting anticipatory bail to former officers of the Intelligence Bureau and kingdom police going through fees of conspiracy to border ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in an espionage case.
A bench of Justices M R Shah and C T Ravikumar requested the High Court to remember their pleas afresh and determine the problem ideally inside four weeks from the date of receipt of its order. The courtroom docket additionally directed that the accused shall now no longer be arrested for five weeks difficulty to them cooperating with the research in order that the HC can in the end determine their anticipatory bail petitions.
As an period in-between arrangement…. it’s miles directed that for a duration of 5 weeks from today, i.e until the bail packages are in the end determined via way of means of the High Court upon remand, the respondent accused shall now no longer be arrested difficulty to their cooperation with the research, the seaside said.
The courtroom docket clarified that it has now no longer discovered some thing at the deserves of the case of both events and it’s miles in the long run for the High Court to byskip suitable order. The SC order got here on a plea via way of means of the CBI difficult the HC order granting pre-arrest bail to former Kerala Director General of Police Siby Mathews, former Gujarat ADGP RB Sreekumar, PS Jayaprakash, S Vijayan and Thampi S Durgadutt.
In September 2018, the courtroom docket, even as awarding repayment of Rs 50 lakhs to Dr. Nambi Narayanan for his unlawful arrest and custodial torture, installation a committee headed via way of means of its former decide Justice D K Jain to discover methods and approach to take suitable steps towards the erring police employees who allegedly framed Narayanan in what got here to be called the ISRO secret agent scandal. Narayanan used to go the cryogenic venture at ISRO.
In April 2021, the SC had requested the CBI to probe the problem after the Centre talked about that the Jain Commission file said that it’s a critical remember which desires deeper research.
The CBI in the end registered instances towards the accused.
Between October and November 1994, the Kerala police had arrested Maldivian women, Mariam Rasheeda and Fousiya Hasan, and claimed to have exposed a secret agent ring in ISRO and leak of touchy documents. The case become to start with investigated via way of means of S Vijayan, who become an Inspector on the Special Branch, Thiruvananthapuram. Subsequently, the case become taken over via way of means of a Special Investigation Team headed via way of means of the then DIG (Crime) Siby Mathews.
Nambi Narayanan become arrested on November 30, 1994, and the research become surpassed over to the CBI on December four, 1994. In its file to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam, the CBI had said that the proof accumulated indicated that the allegations of espionage towards the scientists at ISRO, which include the appellant herein, had been now no longer proved and had been discovered to be false.