The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear in April a petition filed by former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, discharged in the 1994 espionage case, seeking an order to initiate criminal action against three former top police officers for allegedly fabricating the case against him.
Seeks more time
A three-judge Bench led by Justice Dipak Misra has scheduled the case for hearing in the second week of April after one of the respondent parties sought more time to file a counter to Mr. Narayanan’s petition. The petition was filed in 2015. The court had issued notice to the respondents shortly thereafter in July 2015. The case has been pending since then.
The petition has arraigned former Kerala ADGP Siby Mathews, K.K. Joshwa and S. Vijayan. Mr. Narayanan moved the court after a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court refused his plea.
Narayanan’s contention
In his petition, Mr. Narayanan contended that the High Court had “failed to appreciate the real undercurrent that passed through the mind of the Supreme Court, the NHRC and the single judge of the High Court in their verdict and, on untenable reasons, quashed the order of the single judge.”
