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'FINAL VINDICATION,' tweets actor R Madhavan after Supreme Court orders Rs 50 lakh relief for ISRO scientist

'FINAL VINDICATION,' tweets actor R Madhavan after Supreme Court orders Rs 50 lakh relief for ISRO scientist

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Noted actor R Madhavan hailed the Supreme Court’s landmark order awarding Rs 50 lakh compensation to ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan on Friday. 

His happiness was quite evident with the tweet he posted on Twitter. ‘And IT IS HERE ...FINAL VINDICATION AND A NEW BEGINNING. Just the beginning .#RocketrytheNambieffect (sic),’ Madhavan said on the micro-blogging site. 

For the uninitiated, the actor is set to play the scientist in a movie based on his 24-year-long struggle due to wrongful arrest in the sensational 1994 spying case. 

National Award filmmaker Anant Mahadevan is set to direct the movie. 

The apex court while directing the Kerala government to pay the compensation amount within eight weeks also ordered a high-level probe into the role of the erring cops in arresting and causing "tremendous harassment" and "immeasurable anguish" to the 76-year old former scientist of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The three-member probe panel will be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice D K Jain. The Centre and the Kerala government were also asked by the court to nominate one officer each to the panel. The seat of the committee would be at New Delhi.

Pulling up the Kerala police, a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra held that Narayanan was "arrested unnecessarily, harassed and subjected to mental cruelty", adding his "liberty and dignity", basic to his human rights, were jeopardised as he was taken into custody and, eventually, despite all the glory of the past, was compelled to face "cynical abhorrence".

The espionage case, which hit the headlines in 1994, pertained to allegations of transfer of certain confidential documents on India's space programme to foreign countries by two scientists including Narayanan and four others, including two Maldivian women. Narayanan had to spend close to two months in jail before the CBI concluded the allegations against him were false.

Narayanan approached the apex court against the judgement of the Kerala High Court, which said no action was required to be taken against former DGP Siby Mathews and two retired superintendents of police K K Joshua and S Vijayan, who were later held responsible by the CBI for the scientist's illegal arrest.

Welcoming the court order, Narayanan said the espionage case was fabricated and insisted that the technology he was accused to have stolen and sold did not even exist at that time.

"The Supreme Court has clearly stated that it was an illegal arrest. It also identifies and acknowledges the suffering and humiliation I have gone through.

"The highest court of the country has accepted what I said. They (Kerala police) fabricated the case. The technology they said I stole and sold did not even exist then," he said.

"Till the age of 53, I worked for the organisation (ISRO). After that, for 24 years, I worked for this case. I am now going to take rest," Narayanan told PTI, calling the court battle a "tough fight" where he was "alone".

(With inputs from PTI)

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