Agarwal, who worked as a senior systems engineer at the BrahMos aerospace facility in Nagpur, was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police in 2018.
New Delhi: Former BrahMos aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal Agarwal was given life imprisonment by a Nagpur court for spying for Pakistan’s ISI. To recall, Agarwal was arrested in 2018 for leaking information about BrahMos missiles to Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI.
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What you need to know Nishant Agarwal:
- Nishant Agarwal He was a senior systems engineer at BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between DRDO and the Russian military industrial consortium (NPO Masinostroienia), and was involved in the development of India’s supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from land, air, sea and underwater.
- Nishant Agarwal was awarded the Defence Research and Development Organisation Young Scientist Award.
- He was known as a brilliant engineer who studied at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Agarwal, who worked as a senior systems engineer at the BrahMos aerospace facility in Nagpur, was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police in 2018.
The ATS had claimed to have found evidence that the suspect had been chatting on Facebook with a person with a Pakistani ID, and after gathering crucial evidence, the suspect was arrested, it said.
His computer was seized during a search at his Nagpur residence.
With a maximum range of 290 km, the BrahMos missile is the world’s fastest cruise missile. It can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft and land. It is a joint venture between India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russia’s NPO Mashnostroyeniya (NPOM).
Published: June 03, 2024 03:35 PM IST
Updated: June 03, 2024 03:35 PM IST
