Two days after the Supreme Court ordered a fresh investigation into the conspiracy regarding the 27-year-old ISRO spy case, a Maldivian woman who was falsely implicated at the time revealed on Saturday that the Kerala police had brutally tortured her to name ISRO scientist S. Nambi Narayanan.
The ISRO spy case surfaced in 1994 when Nambi Narayanan was arrested on charges of espionage along with another senior official of ISRO, two Maldivian women and a businessman.
Of the two women, Fousia Hassan is presently settled in Sri Lanka. Speaking to a Sri Lankan TV channel, she said that she had not even heard Narayanan’s name before the police tortured her and forced her to implicate him in the case.
“I was brutally tortured by the police and when I refused to name him, they said they will arrest my daughter who was a student and rape her. It was after that did I say the name of Narayanan,” said Hassan.
She said she was forced to say that Narayanan and another person shared ISRO’s secrets in exchange for payment in dollars.
She also said that just like Narayanan, who was given compensation, she also has to be paid the compensation as she has health issues because of the brutalities she suffered during the interrogation.
The ISRO spy case has now surfaced through the Supreme Court new directive on Thursday, which came after the apex court appointed a three-member committee headed by retired SC judge D.K. Jain to probe if there was a conspiracy among then police officials to falsely implicate Narayanan. On Thursday the apex court went through the committee’s report and ordered the CBI to conduct the new probe and submit its report within three months.
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