Isro case: CBI team lands in Thiruvananthapuram, arrests likely soon

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A team of officers from the special crimes unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Delhi reached the capital on Monday to conduct a detailed probe into the sensational Isro espionage case.
The team that is camping at the CBI office in Muttathara in the capital, has begun the detailed examination of the documents connected to the case.
It is reliably learnt that there are likely to be some arrests in the case soon.
The team has asked former Isro scientist Nambi Narayanan to appear before it on Tuesday to give his statements in the case.
As many as 18 former police officers, including those who served in the Kerala police and Intelligence Bureau during the Isro espionage case, have been named as accused in the first information report (FIR) submitted by the CBI in the chief judicial magistrate court here. The CBI had cited offences, including conspiracy, physical torture and forging false documents to trap central government officials.
The Supreme Court had on April 15 ordered the CBI to look into the justice D K Jain committee report on the role of some of the senior state police officers, who had framed Isro scientist Nambi Narayanan in the espionage case. Narayanan had taken up the matter for taking action against the erring officials with the Supreme Court by filing a civil writ petition.
Former IPS officers, including Siby Mathews, Mathew John and R B Sreekumar, are among those who have been named by the CBI in its FIR.
Mathews, who is the fourth accused in the case as per the FIR, has been granted anticipatory bail by the district court, Thiruvananthapuram.
Mathews was the DIG (crimes) when the case happened.