Here's the real story of Isro 'spy' case that rocked the nation in 1990s

The espionage case dates back to 1994, when S. Nambi Narayanan, along with another scientist, was accused of selling classified information on India's cryogenic engine programme to Russia and Pakistan

The Rs-50-lakh award to former ISRO scientist S. Nambi Narayanan for being “unnecessarily arrested and harassed” by the Kerala police will go some distance in providing a closure to the so-called ‘ISRO spy case’. There will probably never be a real closure – there are too many loose ends to the case that rocked India in the mid-1990s.

It began with the arrest of a Maldivian woman, Mariam Rashida, in October 1994, on the charges of overstaying her visa that led to the surprise arrests of Narayanan, the director of the cryogenic project lab of the Indian Space Research Organisation