A week after receiving a summon to appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), former Director General of Police Sumedh Saini is scheduled to confront the agency on Tuesday.

Thiruvananthapuram Aug 24 PTI Former Kerala DGP Siby Mathews was on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail by a court here in the case registered by the CBI in connection with the illegal arrest of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan and two Maldives nationals in a 1994 spying caseThe relief was granted by Principal District and Sessions Judge P Krishnakumar advocate V Ajakumar -- who appeared for Mathews -- confirmedThe order was also confirmed by advocate Prasad Gandhi who had appeared for the two Maldivian nationals -- Mariyam Rasheeda and Fouziyya HasanThe detailed order is awaitedBoth Narayanan and the two women from Maldives had opposed granting any relief to MathewsRecently Kerala High Court had granted anticipatory bail plea to three former police officers and a retired Intelligence Bureau IB official in the same caseCBI has lodged the case against Mathews and 17 others including IB officials for various offences like criminal conspiracy and kidnapping and fabrication of evidence under the IPC in connection with the arrest of Narayanan and the two Maldives nationals The Supreme Court had on April 15 ordered that the report of a high-level committee on the role of erring police officials in the espionage case relating to Narayanan be given to the CBI and directed the agency to conduct further investigation on the issueThe three-member committee headed by former apex court judge Justice retd D K Jain was appointed by the top court in 2018 after acquitting Narayanan in the caseThe Supreme Court had also directed the Kerala government to pay Rs 50 lakh as compensation for compelling Narayanan to undergo immense humiliationThe espionage case which had hit the headlines then pertained to allegations of transfer of certain confidential documents on Indias space programme to foreign countries by two scientists and four others including two Maldivian womenThe CBI in its probe back then had held that the then top police officials in Kerala were responsible for Narayanans illegal arrestThe case also had a political fallout with a section in the Congress targeting the then Chief Minister late K Karunakaran over the issue that eventually led to his resignation PTI HMP ROH ROH