Cover -Up exposed

The Kerala High Court has dealt a big blow to the reputation of the CBI in its judgement in an ISRO espionage case. Dismissing a writ petition demanding the arrest of Ramon Srivastava, Kerala inspector general of police, a division bench of the High Court has roundly criticised the CBI for the improper methods adopted in investigation into the involvement of top police officials of the state in ISRO espionage case. The 25page Judgement has given a jolt to the the CBI which had found that the inspector general was dragged into the case owing to the infighting in the Kerala police. The evidence produced by the Kerala police and the Central intelligence was clinching that the latter had sought the permission of the government to take him into custody. But when the CBI was brought into the picture, the central bureaucracy flatly denied the involvement of the officer. Though all the accused in the case had implicated the inspector-general as one of the inner-few, they consequently retracted. The CBI has a strange explanantion for the first statement of the accused implicating the officer. The CBI thinks that the Kerala police used third degree methods to extract evidence against Srivastava. The court has thrown to the winds this harassment theory of the CBI. The court had seen three video cassettes of the interrogation by the Intelligence Bureau. The accused were not only relaxed but they were very jovial and making statements in a free and fair atmosphere.