A former scientist of ISRO, who was acquitted in an espionage case in the organisation, has demanded action against former Gujarat DGP R.B. Sreekumar for falsely implicating him in the case and threatened to take legal action against the Union Home Ministry if his demand is not met.
In a letter to the Union Home Secretary, S. Nambi Narayanan, who retired from ISRO as a rocket scientist, claimed Sreekumar, who was then serving as Deputy Director in the Intelligence Bureau, Thiruvananthapuram, and was in charge of the probe into the espionage case, had falsely implicated him in it.
“The cases were later transferred to CBI, which found that these were false and fabricated cases. The CBI reported to the Home Ministry and Kerala Government about the shoddy investigation done by IB officials and Kerala Police. The CBI in its report also proposed stern departmental action against ‘delinquent IB officials’ who included Sreekumar,” the letter written by Narayanan said.
The former ISRO scientist claimed he was branded as a traitor, ill-treated, physically tortured during his six-day custody under the IB and Kerala Police.
Narayanan alleged that he was the victim of the false case fabricated by Sreekumar and others in the IB but no action has been taken against the former police officer despite CBI reporting serious illegalities improprieties.
Demanding a fresh probe against Sreekumar and other IB officials for their “shoddy” investigation into the ISRO espionage case, the former scientist told the Union Home Secretary that if action is not taken against the former police officers, he would be “compelled to take suitable legal recourse against the Home Ministry.”