ISRO Espionage Case: Centre Seeks Urgent Hearing, SC To Hear Matter Next Week

 SC To Hear Matter Next Week ISRO Espionage Case,ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan

                                

ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday asked the Supreme Court to open the sealed cowl record of a panel headed via way of means of former top court decide D.K. Jain, fashioned in September 2018 via way of means of the court to probe the position of Kerala law enforcement officials withinside the wrongful arrest of ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in a 1994 espionage case.

Solicitor popular Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, asked the top court to absorb the record for passing suitable orders on Tuesday. Mehta submitted that the problem is of countrywide importance.

A bench headed via way of means of headed via way of means of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde stated there's absolute confidence that the problem is important, however there's no urgency in listening to it. The top court, however, agreed to pay attention the problem subsequent week.

79-year-vintage Nambi Narayanan waged a prison struggle towards the Kerala law enforcement officials who accused him of being a Pakistan undercover agent in 1994. Besides appointing the panel, the top court had directed the Kerala authorities to pay Rs 50 lakh reimbursement for inflicting monstrous humiliation to Narayanan.

In 2018, a bench of the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra determined to employ a committee below Jain and requested the Centre and the Kerala authorities to call one character every to the committee below Jain. While the Centre appointed a pinnacle legit — D.K. Prasad, the Pinarayi Vijayan authorities appointed former Additional Chief Secretary V. S. Senthil.

The ISRO undercover agent case surfaced in 1994 while Narayanan become arrested on expenses of espionage along side some other senior legit of ISRO, Maldivian ladies and a businessman.

The CBI had held that the then top police officers in Kerala had been liable for Narayanan’s unlawful arrest. The panel tested the situations leading to Narayanan’s arrest. It become alleged that private files on India’s area programme become allegedly transferred to overseas countries.

Nambi Narayanan had maintained that Kerala police fabricated the case and the generation he become accused to have stolen and offered in 1994 case did now no longer even exist at that time.