ISRO espionage case: SC-appointed probe panel submits report on Nambi Narayanan's illegal arrest

255°
Tech Guru
bikidas2060

The 79-year-old former scientist, who was given a clean chit by the CBI in the case, maintains that the Kerala Police had ‘fabricated’ the case
The scientist was arrested when Congress was heading the government in Kerala. The panel, after investigation, submitted its report in a sealed cover to the apex court recently.
The CBI, in its probe, had held that the then top police officials in Kerala were responsible for Narayanan’s illegal arrest.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/isro-esp...ge-…
He was awarded Rs 50 lakh compensation by the Supreme Court for being framed by police officers in the space research centre case. Please list it for hearing on Tuesday," the SG requested. Kerala Assembly election voting is on Tuesday. source: https://m.timesofindia.com/india/justice-...-s
Nambi Narayanan: The fake spy scandal that blew up a rocket scientist’s career
Imagine your life being changed by a single dramatic moment. This is what happened to a top scientist in the Indian space programme, when one day, 25 years ago, police officers knocked at his door.
“The moment
One winter afternoon a quarter of a century ago three policemen arrived at a house in a narrow lane in the southern Indian city of Trivandrum, the capital of the state of Kerala.
The officers were polite and respectful, Nambi Narayanan remembers.
They told the space scientist that their boss, a deputy inspector general of police, wanted to talk to him.
“Am I under arrest?” Mr Narayanan asked.
“No sir,” the officer said.
It was 30 November 1994. The 53-year-old scientist led the Indian space agency’s cryogenic rocket engine project, and was responsible for acquiring the technology from Russia.
Mr Narayanan walked out to the waiting police vehicle. He asked whether he should sit in the front or the back – suspects were usually dumped in the back seat.
The policemen asked him to sit in the front, and the Jeep rolled out of the lane.
When they arrived at the police station, the boss wasn’t there, so Mr Narayanan was asked to wait on a bench. Policemen gaped at him as they passed by.
“They had that look as if they were looking at someone who had done some crime,” Mr Narayanan says.
He waited and waited. The boss didn’t turn up.
As night fell, he dozed off on the bench. When he woke up next morning, he was told he was under arrest.
A scrum of journalists had arrived, and within hours newspapers were describing him as a traitor – a man who had sold rocket technology to Pakistan, after falling into a honey trap set by two women from the Maldives.
His life was never the same again." source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-4...70
It’s a national shame. How can one country treat its eminent scientists as traitors. Why won’t people with big brains flee this country?

Top Comments
19 Comments  |  
5 Dimers
  • Sort By
Tech Guru Tech Guru
Link Copied

Thankfully he got the justice. 🙏🙏🙏😔😔😔 But what about the lost 25 years???

Critic Critic
Link Copied

This is what happens when rule of law is replaced by rule of power & this is why everyone should be very afraid of “encounter specialists”, “guilty until proven innocent preventive detention laws” & “supreme leaders”.

View 12 more replies
Community Angel Community Angel
Link Copied

@MJ911 Please move this political junk to appropriate place

Tech Guru Tech Guru
Link Copied

Please don’t call someone’s post as junk.

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
Link Copied

CIA propoganda amplified by communists which ensured india didn’t progress in crucial tech and a person was witchhunted.

Tech Guru Tech Guru
Link Copied

Please move this to political section bhau @MJ911 🙂🙂🙂

replyuser
Click here to reply
Reply