Charge sheet filed against these officers
The CBI has filed a chargesheet against then Deputy Inspector General of Police Mathews, who headed the SIT probing the 1994 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) espionage case. Apart from this, a chargesheet has also been filed against then Deputy Director in Intelligence Bureau Sreekumar, PS Jayaprakash posted in SIB-Kerala, then Deputy Superintendent of Police KK Joshua and Inspector S Vijayan.
The Supreme Court gave the order in 2021
Officials said the CBI has charged them under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 342 (wrongful confinement), 330 (causing hurt to extract confession), 167 (forging false documents), 193 (fabricating evidence), 354 (criminal assault on women). The Supreme Court had on April 15, 2021 ordered that the report of a high-level committee on the role of guilty police officers in the 1994 espionage case involving ISRO scientist Narayanan be given to the CBI.
What was the whole matter?
Kerala police had registered two cases in October 1994 when Maldivian national Rashida was arrested in Thiruvananthapuram. She was accused of obtaining confidential drawings of ISRO's rocket engine and selling them to Pakistan. In this case, Narayanan, the then director of the cryogenic project at ISRO, was arrested along with D Sasikumaran, the then deputy director of ISRO. Apart from this, Rashida's friend Fauzia Hasan was also arrested. These allegations were found to be false in the CBI investigation.
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