Nishant Agarwal, a former junior scientist at BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Nagpur for leaking technical information about the BrahMos missile to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The 6-year-long investigation led to his arrest in 2018 by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Agarwal was found guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act and leaking information from the Defence Research and Development Organisation. His interactions with the ISI were monitored by the UP police, leading to his arrest and subsequent conviction.
An Indian engineer, who worked for a joint venture between India's DRDO and Russia's Military Industrial Consortium, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for spying for Pakistan's ISI. Nishant Agarwal was convicted under various sections of the Official Secrets Act and will have to undergo 14 years of rigorous imprisonment. This development is significant as it highlights the BJP's tendency to question the loyalty of Muslims and accuse them of supporting Pakistan.
A former engineer at BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd in Nagpur has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nagpur district court for spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI. Nishant Agarwal was arrested in 2018 after a joint operation by military intelligence and Anti-terrorism squads. He was found guilty under the Official Secrets Act and will also have to undergo 14 years of rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs 3,000.