Not just reports, make entire thing public: Ex-Antrix Chief Murthi

K R Sridhara Murthi, the then Executive Director of Antrix, ISRO's marketing arm, who later became its Managing Director, said putting only the two reports in public domain amounts "selective and limited view" of the issue and would  not give a full picture and  said that not just two key reports on the basis of which action has been taken against him and three others.

Under attack from former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair who accused him of being behind the action to debar four scientists from holding any government posts over the deal,ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan earlier this week announced the intention to make the two reports public.

The first the report of the Government-constituted high-powered committee comprised B K Chaturvedi and Roddam
Narasimha to "review the technical, commercial, procedural and financial aspects" of the 2005 agreement. The committee
submitted its report to the Prime Minister in March 2011.

 A five-member high-level team headed by former Central Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha, set up in May last year
to examine the deal and identify acts of omission and commission by government officials, gave the second report.

"It?s not only the reports. They should make the entire thing public. The report (Sinha team) may contain some particular viewpoint. It depends on the process employed by the report (Sinha team)", Murthi said.

 "While we have all appreciation for the process followed by the first committee (Chaturvedi and Narasimha), the second
committee (Sinha)...I don?t know...because we are not given an opportunity to defend ourselves", he said.