ISRO espionage case involved discredited allegations of espionage made by Indian investigation agencies in the 1990s against some scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).[1] Indian intelligence agencies and the Kerala police arrested some senior aerospace engineers on charges of attempting to sell confidential documents containing designs of indigenous rocket engine developed by ISRO.[2]
The most prominent victim was aerospace engineer Nambi Narayanan, who later alleged that the United States and CIA may have involved in fabricating the case,[3][4] thereby preventing India from entering into multi-billion dollar commercial space missions.[5] Indian National Congress (INC) politicians A. K. Antony and Oommen Chandy led 'A'-group caucus inside the INC in Kerala, senior Kerala Police officials like Raman Srivastava,[6] Siby Mathews and the Malayalam newspaper Malayala Manorama played a major role in sensationalising[7][8] and politicising the allegations made against the scientists.[9][10]
In April 1996, the Central Bureau of Investigation concluded that there was no case to be made and the Supreme Court of India stopped the Kerala government from pursuing further investigation.[11] The political fallout from the case caused K. Karunakaran to resign as chief minister of Kerala in March 1995.[12] The ISRO employees, who had been subject to arrest, pursued redress in courts, with Nambi Narayanan being awarded around 19 lakh[13] in total as compensation. In 2021, the Supreme Court ordered a probe into the actions of involved police officers, who filed counter-suits alleging corruption on the part of CBI investigators. Siby Mathews IPS was the fourth accused in the espionage fabrication case and accused of ordering the alleged torture of Nambi Narayanan. He is fighting a case in the Supreme Court against a CBI plea to cancel Mathews's anticipatory bail in the fake case.[14][15]
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