ISRO spy case: Kerala HC seeks CBI’s response to its plea against anticipatory bail to four accused persons

The Kerala Excessive Court docket on Thursday sought the CBI’s response to its plea earlier than the Supreme Court docket difficult the anticipatory bail granted to 4 individuals in reference to the 1994 ISRO espionage case.

The case pertains to the alleged framing of house scientist Nambi Narayanan.

The listening to on the plea difficult the anticipatory bail granted to 4 individuals, together with a former Director Normal of Police (DGP), was posted for subsequent week.

The CBI has been directed to submit its reply to the plea throughout a particular sitting of the Kerala Excessive Court docket on the following date.

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The 4 accused individuals had approached the HC looking for anticipatory bail, on the route of the Supreme Court docket.

On December 2, the Supreme Court docket quashed the Kerala Excessive Court docket order granting anticipatory bail to the 4 individuals and requested the HC to determine the difficulty inside 4 weeks.

The Supreme Court docket issued the route on the CBI’s plea difficult the excessive court docket order, granting them bail.

The anticipatory bail plea was filed on behalf of former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar, former Kerala law enforcement officials S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt, and retired intelligence officer PS Jayaprakash.

Sreekumar was the deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

The CBI had registered a case towards 18 folks, together with prison conspiracy, in reference to the arrest and detention of Nambi Narayanan within the espionage case.