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  • ISRO espionage case: SC units apart anticipatory bail of 4 former officials; asks HC to believe bail pleas afresh

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    NEW DELHI: The Preferrred Court docket on Friday requested the Kerala HC to believe afresh anticipatory bail pleas of former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar, two former cops of Kerala, S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt, and a retired intelligence reputable P S Jayaprakash accused of hatching a conspiracy to border former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayan and others within the ISRO espionage case.

    The retired Kerala Cops S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt have been a part of the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) which arrested the scientist.

    The bench led by way of Justice MR Shah whilst environment apart HC’s order requested it to rethink their pleas inside of 4 weeks. It additional granted meantime coverage from arrest to the accused for 5 weeks and until the HC comes to a decision their pleas topic to them cooperating within the investigation.

    Court docket’s order got here in a plea filed by way of CBI difficult Kerala HC’s April 16 order granting them anticipatory bail. HC whilst granting them bail had noticed that issues of the Kerala police at that level concerning the espionage case can’t be stated to be with out foundation.

    “Probably the most paperwork that have been produced for perusal point out that there have been positive suspicious cases pointing against the act of the Scientists within the ISRO and that’s what prompted the officials to continue in opposition to them”, Justice Ashok Menon had famous within the order.

    The Prime Court docket additionally remarked that there used to be “now not even a scintilla of proof” to indicate that the petitioners accused of implicating former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan within the espionage case have been influenced by way of overseas components.

    Difficult the bail, the probe company had contended that the HC had granted anticipatory bail at the floor that the topic used to be previous. ASG SV Raju had added that regardless of the offence which used to be dedicated 25 years in the past, most sensible courtroom had directed for registration of FIR and it used to be now not open for the HC to grant bail in this floor. Alternatively, Senior Suggest Kapil Sibal for the then IB officer, argued accused used to be charged for “bailable offences”. He additionally added that there used to be no allegation in opposition to him within the FIR and there used to be no foundation for the probe company to take him into custody.

    Narayanan and 6 others have been accused of promoting secrets and techniques referring to ISRO’s cryogenic programme to girls who have been allegedly spying for Russia, Pakistan’s Inter-Services and products Intelligence and different nations. In 1994, he and two different businessmen have been arrested at the fees of espionage.

    In September 2018, the Preferrred Court docket had held that the prosecution initiated by way of Kerala Police within the 1990’s relating to the ISRO Espionage Case used to be maliciously moved in opposition to the Scientist, inflicting him immense humiliation. On account of this, the Kerala Executive used to be directed to pay repayment of Rs. 50 lac to Narayanan. Additional to this, a three-member committee used to be constituted to probe into the unlawful arrest of Narayanan.

    NEW DELHI: The Preferrred Court docket on Friday requested the Kerala HC to believe afresh anticipatory bail pleas of former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar, two former cops of Kerala, S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt, and a retired intelligence reputable P S Jayaprakash accused of hatching a conspiracy to border former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayan and others within the ISRO espionage case.

    The retired Kerala Cops S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt have been a part of the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) which arrested the scientist.

    The bench led by way of Justice MR Shah whilst environment apart HC’s order requested it to rethink their pleas inside of 4 weeks. It additional granted meantime coverage from arrest to the accused for 5 weeks and until the HC comes to a decision their pleas topic to them cooperating within the investigation.

    Court docket’s order got here in a plea filed by way of CBI difficult Kerala HC’s April 16 order granting them anticipatory bail. HC whilst granting them bail had noticed that issues of the Kerala police at that level concerning the espionage case can’t be stated to be with out foundation.

    “Probably the most paperwork that have been produced for perusal point out that there have been positive suspicious cases pointing against the act of the Scientists within the ISRO and that’s what prompted the officials to continue in opposition to them”, Justice Ashok Menon had famous within the order.

    The Prime Court docket additionally remarked that there used to be “now not even a scintilla of proof” to indicate that the petitioners accused of implicating former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan within the espionage case have been influenced by way of overseas components.

    Difficult the bail, the probe company had contended that the HC had granted anticipatory bail at the floor that the topic used to be previous. ASG SV Raju had added that regardless of the offence which used to be dedicated 25 years in the past, most sensible courtroom had directed for registration of FIR and it used to be now not open for the HC to grant bail in this floor. Alternatively, Senior Suggest Kapil Sibal for the then IB officer, argued accused used to be charged for “bailable offences”. He additionally added that there used to be no allegation in opposition to him within the FIR and there used to be no foundation for the probe company to take him into custody.

    Narayanan and 6 others have been accused of promoting secrets and techniques referring to ISRO’s cryogenic programme to girls who have been allegedly spying for Russia, Pakistan’s Inter-Services and products Intelligence and different nations. In 1994, he and two different businessmen have been arrested at the fees of espionage.

    In September 2018, the Preferrred Court docket had held that the prosecution initiated by way of Kerala Police within the 1990’s relating to the ISRO Espionage Case used to be maliciously moved in opposition to the Scientist, inflicting him immense humiliation. On account of this, the Kerala Executive used to be directed to pay repayment of Rs. 50 lac to Narayanan. Additional to this, a three-member committee used to be constituted to probe into the unlawful arrest of Narayanan.

  • Gujarat riots case: Ahmedabad courtroom defers order on bail pleas of Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar

    By way of ANI

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad courtroom, which reserved its order at the bail packages of activist Teesta Setalvad and previous DGP RB Sreekumar remaining week within the 2002 Gujarat riots case, deferred the judgement to Thursday.

    Each the perimeters had concluded presenting their arguments remaining week, following which the courtroom had reserved its order and used to be more likely to pronounce the judgement Tuesday or on Wednesday.

    The Gujarat Police Crime Department on June 26 had arrested Teesta Setalvad in reference to a case in opposition to her NGO which gave baseless details about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

    The SIT had filed critical fees in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt with regards to defaming a number of other people together with the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi with regards to petitions to quite a lot of commissions and the Very best Courtroom.

    An SIT record, previous this month, published that Teesta, Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had approved Rs 30 lakh from overdue Congress chief Ahmed Patel, the then political consultant to Sonia Gandhi, to allegedly body then Gujarat leader minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his executive following the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    The SIT used to be shaped to probe Setalvad along side RB Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

    SIT ACP BC Solanki and Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel had filed a sworn statement within the periods courtroom in opposition to the bail plea filed via Teesta, Sreekumar within the Periods Courtroom declaring that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the aim of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from the Congress.

    A metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt used to be arrested via the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling price range and forging paperwork.

    Ultimate month, the Very best Courtroom disregarded the plea filed via Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given via the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be amongst 69 other people killed throughout violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 other people together with Narendra Modi. In line with the SIT, Zakia Jafri used to be used as a device via Teesta.

    After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Categorical teach at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state through which greater than 1,000 other people had been killed. 

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad courtroom, which reserved its order at the bail packages of activist Teesta Setalvad and previous DGP RB Sreekumar remaining week within the 2002 Gujarat riots case, deferred the judgement to Thursday.

    Each the perimeters had concluded presenting their arguments remaining week, following which the courtroom had reserved its order and used to be more likely to pronounce the judgement Tuesday or on Wednesday.

    The Gujarat Police Crime Department on June 26 had arrested Teesta Setalvad in reference to a case in opposition to her NGO which gave baseless details about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

    The SIT had filed critical fees in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt with regards to defaming a number of other people together with the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi with regards to petitions to quite a lot of commissions and the Very best Courtroom.

    An SIT record, previous this month, published that Teesta, Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had approved Rs 30 lakh from overdue Congress chief Ahmed Patel, the then political consultant to Sonia Gandhi, to allegedly body then Gujarat leader minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his executive following the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    The SIT used to be shaped to probe Setalvad along side RB Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

    SIT ACP BC Solanki and Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel had filed a sworn statement within the periods courtroom in opposition to the bail plea filed via Teesta, Sreekumar within the Periods Courtroom declaring that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the aim of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from the Congress.

    A metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt used to be arrested via the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling price range and forging paperwork.

    Ultimate month, the Very best Courtroom disregarded the plea filed via Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given via the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be amongst 69 other people killed throughout violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 other people together with Narendra Modi. In line with the SIT, Zakia Jafri used to be used as a device via Teesta.

    After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Categorical teach at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state through which greater than 1,000 other people had been killed. 

  • Setalvad used to be a part of conspiracy to border then-Gujarat CM Modi in 2002 riots instances: SIT to court docket

    By way of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-Gujarat Leader Minister Narendra Modi and others as accused within the post-Godhra riots instances, and tried to destabilize the BJP govt the usage of finances gathered within the title of sufferers, a state SIT instructed a court docket on Wednesday.

    Setalvad used to be arrested final month via the Ahmedabad crime department along side former DGP RB Sreekumar and ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless individuals within the 2002 riots instances.

    The Mumbai-based activist, recently in prison in Gujarat, has sought bail.

    A different investigation staff (SIT) of the Gujarat police, probing the costs towards Setalvad and the 2 former cops, has adversarial her bail plea.

    Arguing towards the bail plea of Setalvad, particular public prosecutor (SPP) Mitesh Amin instructed the court docket of periods pass judgement on DD Thakkar in Ahmedabad that she used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-chief minister Modi and others as accused within the riots instances.

    Amin instructed the court docket Setalvad gained finances at the floor they have been intended to be allotted a number of the sufferers of the 2002 riots, however the cash by no means reached the supposed beneficiaries.

    The SPP claimed the cash by no means reached the sufferers, and it used to be fairly used to destabilise the then-BJP govt and display it engineered and subsidized the riots, which have been prompted after a mob torched a trainer of the Sabarmati Specific educate close to Godhra station on February 27, 2002, resulting in the demise of 59 passengers.

    The conspiracy concerned Congress leaders just like the past due Ahmed Patel and others, and all this used to be performed on the behest of the opposition birthday celebration, he stated.

    Additional arguments will proceed on Thursday.

    The court docket is listening to the bail pleas of each Setalvad and Sreekumar.

    They’ve already refuted the entire fees levelled towards them and claimed there used to be no benefit in them.

    Setalvad, along side Sreekumar and Bhatt, used to be booked beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 468 (forgery) and 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence), amongst different offences after arrest.

    The SIT, in its affidavit submitted prior to the court docket final week, had accused Setalvad of conspiring with the 2 different accused — Sreekumar and Bhatt — for “dismissal or destabilisation of the elected govt in Gujarat by some means.”

    Opposing her bail plea, the SIT stated within the affidavit that the conspiracy used to be performed on the behest of past due Patel.

    At Patel’s behest, Setalvad gained Rs 30 lakh after the post-Godhra riots, the probe staff alleged.

    Setalvad used to satisfy the leaders of a “distinguished nationwide birthday celebration in energy at the moment in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP govt in revolt instances”, the SIT additional claimed within the affidavit.

    Final month, the Preferrred Courtroom had pushed aside a plea filed via Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, killed all the way through the riots in Ahmedabad.

    The plea alleged a “greater conspiracy” at the back of the 2002 riots in Gujarat.

    However the court docket upheld a prior SIT’s blank chit to Modi (who used to be Gujarat CM from 2001 to 2014) and 63 others.

    The apex court docket had stated there is not any “name of subject matter” to give a boost to the allegation that the communal violence that came about after the Godhra educate burning incident used to be a “pre-planned match” owing to a conspiracy hatched on the very best stage within the state.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be a number of the 68 other people killed at Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society all the way through the violence on February 28, 2002, an afternoon after the Godhra educate burning incident.

    The central govt had knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha in Might 2005 that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus have been killed within the statewide riots.

    AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-Gujarat Leader Minister Narendra Modi and others as accused within the post-Godhra riots instances, and tried to destabilize the BJP govt the usage of finances gathered within the title of sufferers, a state SIT instructed a court docket on Wednesday.

    Setalvad used to be arrested final month via the Ahmedabad crime department along side former DGP RB Sreekumar and ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless individuals within the 2002 riots instances.

    The Mumbai-based activist, recently in prison in Gujarat, has sought bail.

    A different investigation staff (SIT) of the Gujarat police, probing the costs towards Setalvad and the 2 former cops, has adversarial her bail plea.

    Arguing towards the bail plea of Setalvad, particular public prosecutor (SPP) Mitesh Amin instructed the court docket of periods pass judgement on DD Thakkar in Ahmedabad that she used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-chief minister Modi and others as accused within the riots instances.

    Amin instructed the court docket Setalvad gained finances at the floor they have been intended to be allotted a number of the sufferers of the 2002 riots, however the cash by no means reached the supposed beneficiaries.

    The SPP claimed the cash by no means reached the sufferers, and it used to be fairly used to destabilise the then-BJP govt and display it engineered and subsidized the riots, which have been prompted after a mob torched a trainer of the Sabarmati Specific educate close to Godhra station on February 27, 2002, resulting in the demise of 59 passengers.

    The conspiracy concerned Congress leaders just like the past due Ahmed Patel and others, and all this used to be performed on the behest of the opposition birthday celebration, he stated.

    Additional arguments will proceed on Thursday.

    The court docket is listening to the bail pleas of each Setalvad and Sreekumar.

    They’ve already refuted the entire fees levelled towards them and claimed there used to be no benefit in them.

    Setalvad, along side Sreekumar and Bhatt, used to be booked beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 468 (forgery) and 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence), amongst different offences after arrest.

    The SIT, in its affidavit submitted prior to the court docket final week, had accused Setalvad of conspiring with the 2 different accused — Sreekumar and Bhatt — for “dismissal or destabilisation of the elected govt in Gujarat by some means.”

    Opposing her bail plea, the SIT stated within the affidavit that the conspiracy used to be performed on the behest of past due Patel.

    At Patel’s behest, Setalvad gained Rs 30 lakh after the post-Godhra riots, the probe staff alleged.

    Setalvad used to satisfy the leaders of a “distinguished nationwide birthday celebration in energy at the moment in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP govt in revolt instances”, the SIT additional claimed within the affidavit.

    Final month, the Preferrred Courtroom had pushed aside a plea filed via Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, killed all the way through the riots in Ahmedabad.

    The plea alleged a “greater conspiracy” at the back of the 2002 riots in Gujarat.

    However the court docket upheld a prior SIT’s blank chit to Modi (who used to be Gujarat CM from 2001 to 2014) and 63 others.

    The apex court docket had stated there is not any “name of subject matter” to give a boost to the allegation that the communal violence that came about after the Godhra educate burning incident used to be a “pre-planned match” owing to a conspiracy hatched on the very best stage within the state.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be a number of the 68 other people killed at Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society all the way through the violence on February 28, 2002, an afternoon after the Godhra educate burning incident.

    The central govt had knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha in Might 2005 that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus have been killed within the statewide riots.

  • Setalvad seeks time to respond to queries, Sreekumar claims innocence throughout interrogation: Police

    By means of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad and retired IPS officer RB Sreekumar remained most commonly tight-lipped throughout their interrogation and refused to show anything else about their alleged position in fabricating proof as claimed in an FIR registered towards them by means of the Gujarat police when it comes to the 2002 riots within the state, stated an respectable on Monday.

    Whilst Setalvad has sought time to reply to questions posed to her by means of the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) of the Gujarat police this is dealing with the case, Sreekumar informed investigators he has finished not anything incorrect, stated the senior police respectable.

    “Each don’t seem to be revealing a lot throughout interrogation. Setalvad, when she used to be grilled the day before today, simplest stated she wishes extra time to reply to the questions. She additionally saved pronouncing that no matter she desires to mention, will say simplest ahead of the court docket,” stated the respectable who helps the SIT in its probe.

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    “We grilled Sreekumar for 4 hours lately. However, he saved pronouncing that no matter he did used to be as in step with the regulation and he did not anything incorrect. Since our case is in large part according to documentary proof, our probe may not be hampered even though the accused don’t cooperate,” stated the respectable.

    A court docket in Ahmedabad on Sunday remanded Setalvad and previous state DGP Sreekumar in police custody until July 2 in a case of allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless individuals in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    To probe the case, the Gujarat police have shaped an SIT headed by means of Deputy Inspector Normal (Anti-Terrorist Squad) Deepan Bhadran.

    The respectable stated statements of rebellion witnesses ahead of the Best Court docket-appointed SIT and affidavits filed by means of the accused in addition to others ahead of the courts at the moment can be amassed as a part of the probe as a result of those paperwork are the primary foundation for the case.

    An afternoon after the Best Court docket upheld the blank chit given by means of an SIT to Top Minister Narendra Modi within the 2002 rebellion instances, the Gujarat police arrested Sreekumar and Mumbai-based Setalvad for allegedly conspiring to falsely implicate blameless individuals.

    Every other former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who’s lately in prison in every other case, has additionally been proven as an accused within the FIR.

    The FIR used to be registered by means of the Ahmedabad town crime department underneath sections 468, 471 (forgery), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to obtain conviction of capital offence), 211 (institute prison court cases to purpose harm), 218 (public servant framing improper report or writing with intent to avoid wasting individual from punishment or assets from forfeiture) and 120 (B) (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code on a grievance filed by means of a police inspector.

    They instituted “false and malicious prison court cases towards blameless other people with goal to purpose harm to a number of individuals, and ready false information and dishonestly used the ones information as authentic as a way to purpose injury and harm to many individuals,” as in step with the grievance.

    The grievance drew on more than a few submissions made ahead of the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) shaped by means of the Best Court docket to research the 2002 Gujarat riots instances and submissions made by means of the accused ahead of the Justice Nanavati-Shah Fee of Inquiry.

    As in step with the FIR, Setalvad “had conjured, concocted, solid, fabricated details and paperwork and/or proof together with fabrication of paperwork by means of individuals who had been protecting witnesses of the complainant (Zakia Jafri)”.

    Setalvad and her NGO had been co-petitioner with Zakia Jafri (spouse of Congress chief Ehsan Jafri who used to be killed within the riots) within the plea filed towards then-chief minister Narendra Modi and others within the Best Court docket.

    The SC disregarded the petition on Friday and upheld the blank chit given to Modi and others.

  • Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan welcomes retired IPS officer RB Sreekumar’s arrest

    Through ANI

    NEW DELHI: Expressing pleasure over the arrest of former IPS officer RB Sreekumar by way of Gujarat Police on Saturday, former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan mentioned that motion have been taken towards the retired police reputable for “fabricating tales and looking to sensationalise them” and “it’s precisely what he did in my case additionally” over the 1994 ISRO espionage case.

    Former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar used to be arrested by way of Gujarat Police on Saturday, an afternoon after Splendid Court docket ruling on June 24 which upheld the blank chit given to High Minister Narendra Modi by way of a Gujarat court docket within the 2002 riots case.

    Talking to ANI over the telephone, Narayanan mentioned that the previous officer used to be “crossing all limits of decency” and “there may be restrict to the whole thing”.

    “I got here to understand that he used to be arrested nowadays for holding on fabricating tales and looking to sensationalise them, there used to be a fee towards him. It’s precisely what he did in my case additionally. However our machine is such that any one can say any unfastened commentary and escape with it. That is what some accountable folks at larger positions additionally stay on doing,” Narayanan mentioned.

    “Now that it’s proven by way of Splendid Court docket that you’ll’t do it anymore. So that they will have to be at the back of the docks. That method, I’m more than happy to understand that he’s being arrested as a result of there’s a restrict for the whole thing. I feel he’s crossing the entire limits on the subject of decency, on the subject of judicial prudence,” he added.

    Narayanan accused Sreekumar of creating false statements about him. “I in my view really feel no matter he’s charged with is appropriate to my case additionally. At some point he’s going to say that I’m corrupt. It has not anything to do with the case, it’s closed. However once more he’s going to say, he’s going to deliver any person else to mention this. That is what he has saved on doing. Now I’m hoping that he’s going to prevent doing that. He will have to even be punished for that,” he alleged.

    Narayanan mentioned nobody will have to be allowed to make the most of loopholes of legislation. “When he used to be arrested I used to be more than happy as a result of he’s going to stay on doing this sort of mischief at all times, there will have to be an finish to any such factor. This is the reason I mentioned, I’m more than happy. Similar factor applies to me in all respects,” he mentioned.

    “He’ll stay on telling one thing. He’ll employ the loopholes of the legislation after which attempt to play his playing cards in any such way in order that you get uninterested and run away. In order that no matter he’s announcing turns into true. That is what he has been doing with such a lot of instances. I need to make it transparent, this isn’t on,” he added.

    The CBI had moved Splendid Court docket towards the Kerala Prime Court docket order of August 2021 granting anticipatory bail to 4 individuals together with Sreekumar in a case when it comes to the alleged framing of Nambi Narayanan within the 1994 ISRO espionage subject.

    The top court docket had granted anticipatory bail to Sreekumar and two former law enforcement officials of Kerala and a retired intelligence reputable in reference to the case.

    Nambi Narayanan and any other former ISRO scientist had in August final yr advised CBI crew probing the ISRO conspiracy case that they had been subjected to “psychological and bodily torture” by way of former Kerala police and Intelligence Bureau officials. Sreekumar used to be then the Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau.