Thiruvananthapuram: Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan has welcomed the Supreme Court decision to have a CBI probe to unearth the conspiracy behind the ISRO espionage case. However, the police officers who investigated the case said they were not heard before finalizing the report by the Justice D K Jain committee.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the CBI to look into Jain committee report on senior state police officials who allegedly framed Narayanan in the espionage case of 1994. While welcoming the decision, Narayanan said he has been strongly demanding this ever since the SC and national human rights commission had found that “it is a totally fabricate case.”
However, he said not just the role of the state police but the role of central intelligence bureau also should be probed to unearth the conspiracy angle. “Those who were questioned in the case and all the police officials involved in the investigation should be brought under the CBI investigation,” he said.
Narayanan said he will not single out any officer for the conspiracy. “Let the CBI probe it and submit its report before the Supreme Court. It is a fabricated case and there is high-level conspiracy involved. I was subjected to harassment for no fault of mine,” he added.
However, the police officers who had probed the case, although welcomed the CBI probe, alleged that the Jain committee report has been made without hearing them.
“The committee not even called me once to take my version. I have registered this protest to the court concerned,” said Sibi Mathews, who was the then DIG and head of the team which investigated the case.
S Vijayan, the then circle inspector, said the committee did not do justice to them. “I was willing to depose before the committee and give all the details about the probe. However, the committee did not even call me once. Let the CBI conduct probe, I will provide all the details I have,” said S Vijayan, who was the first to report the case.
Two other officers, K K Joshua, the then DSP, and R B Sreekumar, the then deputy director of IB in Kerala, are also involved in the case.