Aishwarya Rathore-
Supreme Court ruled that the investigation report provided by former Supreme Court judge Justice DK Jain on the conspiracy angle against former ISRO scientist, Nambi Narayanan in the infamous Espionage Case cannot be used to prosecute the accused, errant police officials.
The bench ordered, “After the registration of FIR, the investigating agency must collect materials on its own and cannot proceed based on the report submitted by Justice DK Jain committee. That by itself cannot be the basis to proceed against the respondents or persons named as accused in the FIR registered by the CBI.”
The bench also clarified in its order that the accused will have the liberty to take all possible remedies available in law, which will be decided by the concerned Courts on merits per law.
On April 15 this year, Supreme Court had directed the CBI to decide on further action based on the contents of the enquiry report submitted by Justice DK Jain. The Court had further directed the CBI to inform it of the decision within three months.
Following that, the CBI registered an FIR, naming certain officers of the Kerala police, who were then handling the ISRO Espionage Case and had allegedly tortured Nambi Narayanan as accused.
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