ISRO frame-up case: Kerala HC grants interim bail to accused former police officers
The Hindu
The court also extended the interim bail granted to former Central Intelligence Officer P.S. Jayaprakash for two weeks.
The Kerala High Court on Monday granted interim anticipatory bail of two weeks to S. Vijayan and Thampi S. Durga Dutt, former Kerala police officers and accused in the case relating to the hatching a conspiracy to frame former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan and others in the espionage case. Justice Ashok Menon passed the interim order on the petition seeking anticipatory bail filed by the two. When the petition came up for hearing, Assistant Solicitor General P. Vijayakumar, appearing for the CBI was not in a position to confirm when they would be arrested. Therefore, the court said that it was granting interim bail to the two. The court ordered that the petitioners be released on interim bail on their executing a bond for ₹50,000 with the two solvent sureties to the sum if the CBI arrested the petitioners.
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