The government on Friday announced Padma Bhushan for former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was cleared in the 1994 spying case by the Supreme Court last year. Narayanan was wrongly accused of sharing defence secrets with Maldivian spies. He was also awarded ₹50-lakh compensation by Kerala government after SC stated he was "unnecessarily arrested and harassed" by the state police.