Despite being a top scientist at a prestigious institution like ISRO, how a person becomes a victim of leprosy and corrupt system, this can be understood through Nambi Narayanan. But one can also learn only from him that how the fight of respect is fought against lies. At the end after twenty-four years, on September 14, Nambi Narayanan, ISRO’s retired rocket scientist was acquitted by the Supreme Court.
The court clearly stated in its order that Narayanan was harassed by unnecessary arrest and was mentally tortured. According to the courts’ order, the Kerala government will give him 50 lakh as compensation and will also be investigating those police officers who arrested Narayanan with false accusations without sufficient evidence. But the fact, that a top scientist is arrested without proper evidence is ignorable? Certainly not.
The matter is of November 1994, when the ISRO cryogenic project director Narayanan was arrested with the accusation of allegedly giving secret rocket information to Pakistan. Although Narayanan denied these allegations since the beginning and later the CBI also appealed the case to be closed, in 1996 the magistrate acquitted all.
In the political prejudices, the new governments opened the case again and again in 1998, the Supreme Court canceled the case and all accused were released. Narayanan was now fighting for his honor and that is why he did not agree to the advice by the Former President APJ Abdul Kalam of not getting into the lawsuit. Nambi Narayanan remained still on his point that ‘action should be taken against those DGP-level officers who tortured me unnecessarily.’
Clearly, after the court’s decision, Nambi is declared victorious in the fight for his honor. In this win, there is a joy of victory, but being a sensitive system, it should also be thought that what not is lost by this 76 years old retired scientist, in 24 years.
How hard would it have been to acquire the post of director of the institute like ISRO, how many dreams, how many ambitions it must have taken, how much energy and what must have been the viewpoint that was demolished in just one stroke?
A scientist with infinite energy, accused of being a detective, imagine what would have been the mental condition of Nambi Narayanan. But believe me, more than him a country has lost, that had such a treasure as Nambi Narayanan, through whom India could have achieved immense possibilities in the field of technology.
GARIMA SINGH
Editor In Chief