Retired DGP Siby Mathews, who’s arraigned because the fourth accused within the CBI case pertaining to conspiracy behind the ISRO spy case, on Friday obtained interim bail from the district classes court docket right here.
When the spy case emerged in 1994, Mathews, then a DIG, had led the probe initiated by Kerala police and had arrested former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan.
In a associated growth, the High Court on Friday prolonged the interim bail granted to P S Jayaprakash, the eleventh accused within the case. He was a deputy central intelligence officer. The court docket posted the petition for additional listening to to July 2.
Last month, the CBI’s Delhi unit had registered the FIR in opposition to 18 folks, all of them retired from Kerala police or the Intelligence Bureau, on fees of framing Nambi Narayanan within the spy case.
