Kerala govt to give Rs 50 lakh compensation to ex-ISRO scientist

September 27, 2018 17:19

Kerala cabinet to give Rs 50 lakh as compensation to former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan. He was earlier granted compensation by the Supreme Court for being arrested in alleged spying case.

Twenty-four years after he was wrongfully arrested in the Indian Space Research Organisation espionage case, space scientist Nambi Narayanan was on Friday awarded Rs 50 lakh as compensation by the Supreme Court for suffering 'immense humiliation' at the hands of the Kerala police whose action was dubbed by the court as 'psycho-pathological treatment'.

The apex court while directing the Kerala government to pay the compensation amount within eight weeks also ordered a high-level probe into the role of the erring cops in arresting and causing 'tremendous harassment' and 'immeasurable anguish' to the 76-year old former scientist of the ISRO.

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