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Devas inquiry not conducted, it’s a lie: Nair
The ISRO controversy over scrapped Rs1,000 crore Antrix-Devas deal in 2005, refuses to die down.
In fact, all the players who are involved in the controversy are playing through the media to settle scores, revealing more and more. It is now the turn of former ISRO chairman and one of the barred space scientists, G Madhavan Nair to turn once again the heat on present ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan.
Nair hit back at him and said “it was one more lie”. He refuted ISRO chief’s claim that an inquiry was conducted into the charges and lapses relating to the deal. In the intensified war of words between two top space scientists, Madhavan Nair and Radhakrishnan, Nair said there was no inquiry conducted by the High Level Team. In fact Radhakrishnan, had said on Monday that a probe was held, noting the “detailed” letter of the Pratyush Sinha-chaired High Level Team (to Nair and seven other officials) listing out the “charges, lapses and irregularities”.
Nair not only refuted his claims but also called this as one more lie. He said, “Normally in any inquiry they have to formulate a chargesheet or omissions and commissions, and they have to ask for explanations. That’s not done,” he said, adding any inquiry panel finding people culpable has to send notice and take steps after considering the reply.
Nair once again blamed ISRO chief and said, “All these steps are violated. The entire process adopted right from annulment of Devas agreement until now, they are based on half-truths and this amounts to misleading the Government.
“So you tell a lie and hundreds of lies will have to be told to cover it up,” he said, indirectly referring to Radhakrishnan whom he has repeatedly accused of being behind the Government action.
In another related development, Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily gave credit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for scrapping the Antrix-Devas deal. Moily told the media on the sidelines of a Chartered Accountants’ Conference in Chennai on Tuesday that the Prime Minister did not want to hide anything and appointed two committees to probe the deal.
He said, “Now things are coming out. Two committees were appointed by the Prime Minister. He never wanted to hide anything”. Moily was commenting on BJP’s questioning of PM’s silence on the issue in the backdrop of blacklisting Madhavan Nair and other three space scientists and asserted that the Prime Minister could not be blamed on the issue.
The ISRO controversy over scrapped Rs1,000 crore Antrix-Devas deal in 2005, refuses to die down.
In fact, all the players who are involved in the controversy are playing through the media to settle scores, revealing more and more. It is now the turn of former ISRO chairman and one of the barred space scientists, G Madhavan Nair to turn once again the heat on present ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan.
Nair hit back at him and said “it was one more lie”. He refuted ISRO chief’s claim that an inquiry was conducted into the charges and lapses relating to the deal. In the intensified war of words between two top space scientists, Madhavan Nair and Radhakrishnan, Nair said there was no inquiry conducted by the High Level Team. In fact Radhakrishnan, had said on Monday that a probe was held, noting the “detailed” letter of the Pratyush Sinha-chaired High Level Team (to Nair and seven other officials) listing out the “charges, lapses and irregularities”.
Nair not only refuted his claims but also called this as one more lie. He said, “Normally in any inquiry they have to formulate a chargesheet or omissions and commissions, and they have to ask for explanations. That’s not done,” he said, adding any inquiry panel finding people culpable has to send notice and take steps after considering the reply.
Nair once again blamed ISRO chief and said, “All these steps are violated. The entire process adopted right from annulment of Devas agreement until now, they are based on half-truths and this amounts to misleading the Government.
“So you tell a lie and hundreds of lies will have to be told to cover it up,” he said, indirectly referring to Radhakrishnan whom he has repeatedly accused of being behind the Government action.
In another related development, Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily gave credit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for scrapping the Antrix-Devas deal. Moily told the media on the sidelines of a Chartered Accountants’ Conference in Chennai on Tuesday that the Prime Minister did not want to hide anything and appointed two committees to probe the deal.
He said, “Now things are coming out. Two committees were appointed by the Prime Minister. He never wanted to hide anything”. Moily was commenting on BJP’s questioning of PM’s silence on the issue in the backdrop of blacklisting Madhavan Nair and other three space scientists and asserted that the Prime Minister could not be blamed on the issue.
