ISRO spy case: SC to hear ex-scientist Nambi Narayanan's plea today
July 09, 2015  08:29
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The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the plea of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was discharged in an espionage case, seeking criminal and disciplinary action against former DGP Siby Mathews and other police officials who were part of Special Investigation Team which had probed the matter.

A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant will hear his appeal against the judgement of the division bench of the Kerala high court which had said that no action was required to be taken against former DGP and two retired Superintendents of Police, K K Joshua and S Vijayan, who were held responsible by CBI for his illegal arrest.

Mathews is currently Kerala Chief Information Commissioner.

The 74-year-old former ISRO scientist said the division bench of the high court had "failed to appreciate the real undercurrent that passed through the mind of the apex court, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the single judge of the high court in their verdict and on untenable reasons, quashed the order of the single judge".

The Apex court had in 1998 granted compensation of Rs 1 lakh to Narayanan and others who were discharged in the case and directed the state government to pay the amount.

Later, Narayanan approached NHRC claiming compensation against the state government for mental agony and torture suffered by him. The NHRC, after hearing both sides and taking into account the apex court judgement of April 29, 1998 awarded an interim compensation of Rs 10 lakh on March 14, 2001.
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