CBI in Kerala to probe ISRO spy case frame-up

Agency contacts victim Nambi Narayanan

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team was here to investigate the police “frame-up” that allegedly resulted in the infamous “ISRO spy case” in 1994. Last month, the CBI filed an FIR marked as classified in the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court here accusing four former law enforcers of “wrongful arrest, custodial torture, and unjustified incarceration” of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan and others. It had named retired Director General of Police Siby Mathews, who headed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the ISRO scandal, his deputies K.K. Joshua, S. Vijayan, and Thampi. S. Durgadutt, and the then Deputy Director, Intelligence Bureau, R.B. Sreekumar, as accused in the FIR. Recently, a district court here had granted anticipatory bail to Mr. Mathews in the case.