A Nagpur court on Monday handed life imprisonment to ex-Brahmos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwalon charges of spying for Pakistan’s ISI. Nishant Agarwal was arrested in 2018 on charges of leaking information about Brahmos missile to Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. Agrawal was a senior system engineer with Brahmos Aerospace, a joint venture between DRDO and Russia’s Military Industrial Consortium (NPO Mashinostroyenia) that worked on India’s supersonic cruise missile, which could be launched from launched from land, air, sea and under water.
Agarwal will also have to undergo rigorous imprisonment (RI) for 14 years and was also fined ₹3,000.
Nishant Agarwal was a winner of the Young Scientists award by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and hence his involvement in such an activity shocked his colleagues. He was known as a bright engineer, studied at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Cops who investigated the case said Nishant made himself an easy target by his casual approach on the internet, though he was engaged in highly sensitive work.
