The 1994 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) espionage case, in which former space scientist Nambi Narayanan was falsely implicated, was allegedly created by a then special branch officer of Kerala police to justify his illegal detention of a Maldivian woman in India after she spurned his advances, the Central Bureau of Investigation has told a court in Thiruvananthapuram.
The ISRO spy case is dead. And yet, not dead.
The Supreme Court Thursday ordered that the report of a high-level committee on the role of erring police officials in the 1994 espionage case relating to Indian Space Research Organisation scientist Nambi Narayanan be given to the Central Bureau of Investigation and directed the agency to conduct further investigation on the issue.
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Narayanan said he suspected that vested interests were behind the 1994 case to deliberately delay India's cryogenic engine technology by at least 15 years.
The court ordered a probe into the role of Kerala police officers involved in arrest of Nambi Narayanan.
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