"I knew I hadn't done anything wrong, and when the Supreme Court exonerated me, it was enough for me. I was sure the truth would come out one day, and I'm glad it came only in my lifetime. "I don't think so. I want evildoers to be punished for what they did to me. I don't even want an apology from him," said Nambi Narayanan, the retired scientist who received the Padma Bhushan award in 2019.
He was reacting to media reports that emerged on Wednesday detailing the charge sheet in the conspiracy behind the ISRO espionage case filed by the CBI's Delhi unit in the CBI Court here, which said that the entire case It was nothing more than a made-up story.
The charge sheet revealed that the case originated from a fabricated story created by the then Circle Inspector S. Vijayan.
The leader of the investigation team, now retired Director General of Police Siby Mathews, was further said to have ordered the arrest of veteran scientist Narayanan without any evidence.
Among the five officials named in the CBI chargesheet are Mathews, Vijayan, then deputy superintendent of police K.K. Joshua and then Intelligence Bureau officers Jayaprakash and R.B.Sreekumar, who retired as Director General of Police of Gujarat.
This charge sheet filed by the CBI came after the Supreme Court in 2018 ordered a three-member committee under retired Supreme Court judge D.K. Jain to investigate whether there was a conspiracy among the then police officers to falsely implicate Narayanan.
The ISRO espionage case emerged in 1994 when Narayanan was arrested on charges of espionage along with another senior ISRO official, two Maldivian women and a businessman.
The CBI exonerated Narayanan in 1995 and has since been waging a legal battle against Mathews and other police officers.
Mathews was subsequently promoted to the rank of Director General of Police and accepted a voluntary retirement plan, months before retiring and becoming the state's Chief Information Officer. He has since retired from that position and is now based in the state capital city.
Incidentally, this case took place when the factional dispute in the Congress between K. Karunakaran and A.K. Antonio's factions led by Oommen Chandy were at their peak.
Karunakaran had to resign from the office in 1995 after it was discovered that he was protecting his close aide and senior police officer, Raman Srivastava, who later became state police chief. After his retirement, he served as advisor to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan (2016-21).
He was reacting to media reports that emerged on Wednesday detailing the charge sheet in the conspiracy behind the ISRO espionage case filed by the CBI's Delhi unit in the CBI Court here, which said that the entire case It was nothing more than a made-up story.
The charge sheet revealed that the case originated from a fabricated story created by the then Circle Inspector S. Vijayan.
The leader of the investigation team, now retired Director General of Police Siby Mathews, was further said to have ordered the arrest of veteran scientist Narayanan without any evidence.
Among the five officials named in the CBI chargesheet are Mathews, Vijayan, then deputy superintendent of police K.K. Joshua and then Intelligence Bureau officers Jayaprakash and R.B.Sreekumar, who retired as Director General of Police of Gujarat.
This charge sheet filed by the CBI came after the Supreme Court in 2018 ordered a three-member committee under retired Supreme Court judge D.K. Jain to investigate whether there was a conspiracy among the then police officers to falsely implicate Narayanan.
The ISRO espionage case emerged in 1994 when Narayanan was arrested on charges of espionage along with another senior ISRO official, two Maldivian women and a businessman.
The CBI exonerated Narayanan in 1995 and has since been waging a legal battle against Mathews and other police officers.
Mathews was subsequently promoted to the rank of Director General of Police and accepted a voluntary retirement plan, months before retiring and becoming the state's Chief Information Officer. He has since retired from that position and is now based in the state capital city.
Incidentally, this case took place when the factional dispute in the Congress between K. Karunakaran and A.K. Antonio's factions led by Oommen Chandy were at their peak.
Karunakaran had to resign from the office in 1995 after it was discovered that he was protecting his close aide and senior police officer, Raman Srivastava, who later became state police chief. After his retirement, he served as advisor to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan (2016-21).
