Thiruvananthapuram: The High Court of Kerala on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Ex-Gujarat Director General of Police RB Sreekumar and three others in the ISRO spy case which has been reopened following the new proceedings initiated by the CBI.
According to reports, Sreekumar's role in the case was as deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau. His then colleague PS Jayaprakash and two former Kerala Police officials S Vijayan and Thampi S. Durgadutt who had all secured interim bail before, got anticipatory bail on Friday. Vijayan and Durgadutt are the first and second accused in a new FIR registered with the Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court by the CBI in June. The report add that In this FIR 18 people, including former top Kerala police and IB officials, have been charged with conspiracy and fabrication of documents.
This case first came in to light in the mid 90s, but things changed for the victim S. Nambi Narayanan, a former ISRO scientist, after several long-drawn court battles when the Supreme Court in 2020 appointed a 3-member committee headed by retired judge Justice DK Jain to investigate if there was a conspiracy among the then police officials to falsely implicate Narayanan.
On June 28, a new team of the CBI arrived in Thiruvananthapuram to try to unravel the ISRO spy case and will look from a different angle if there was any conspiracy on the part of the probe teams of the Kerala Police and the IB.
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