Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 822 · Decided 14 September 2018
S. Nambi Narayanan v. Siby Mathews & Others ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 822 · [2018] 12 S.C.R. 51
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6637/2018
- Decided
- 14 September 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art. 21 - Malicious investigation - Indiscriminate arrest of scientist - Compensation - Allegation of leakage of official secrets and documents of ISRO by scientists - Arrest of appellant-scientist, alleging espionage against scientists of IRSO custody for almost fifty days - Meanwhile, investigation by Special Investigation Team (SIT) handed over to CBI - Report by CBI that allegations not proved and were false - All accused discharged - In view thereof, decision by the State Government to conduct
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