Stigma of being labelled as spy removed with SC judgment: Former ISRO scientist

September 19, 2018 20:44

Over two decades of having to live with the stigma of being labelled as a spy has been finally removed with the Supreme Court awarding him Rs 50 lakh compensation, former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan said.

"I had a necessity to prove my innocence and the 24-year long legal battle to come out of the stigma of being labelled as a spy is over', he said.

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.

He also said the technology he was accused to have stolen and sold in the 1994 case did not even exist at that time.

Narayanan expressed the hope that the Supreme Court appointed three member to take appropriate steps against the erring officials would ascertain why and who had fabricated the case against the former ISRO scientist.

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