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Nishant Agarwal was a senior systems engineer at BrahMos. He was detained in 2018 for giving ISI access to private knowledge regarding the BrahMos missile.
Former engineer Nishant Agarwal of the Indo-Russian missile company BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd was sentenced life imprisonment on Monday for spying for Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency.
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The court sentenced Agarwal to life imprisonment and RI for 14 years stated Special Public Prosecutor Jyoti Vajani and also fined him Rs.3,000.
He completed his graduation from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra and was known as a bright engineer.
Agrawal worked on India’s supersonic cruise missile, which could be launched from land, air, sea, and underwater, as a senior system engineer.
Agarwal was granted bail by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court last April, after nearly five years in jail.
The family of Brahmos missile engineer Nishant Agarwal, who was arrested on charges of espionage, faced the public’s anger on social media as well with his wife trolled so much by people on her Facebook account that she got so upset by this that she closed heraccount last year.
His sister was also targeted on social media.
Uttarakhand resident Nishant Agarwal had been arrested by Uttar Pradesh ATS from DRDO’s office in Nagpur, Maharashtra and according to the ATS, Nishant had shared important information related to Brahmos missile with America and Pakisan.
Investigations revealed that Agarwal had been honey trapped and had been in contact with suspected Pakistani intelligence operatives through two Facebook accounts, Neha Sharma and Pooja Ranjan and these accounts, traced to Islamabad, were believed to be managed by operatives of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI.
The Nagpur bench in its order had observed that gross delay in disposal of the case can justify invocation of Article 21 of the Constitution. Article 21 says no individual can be deprived of life or liberty except with the procedure laid down in the law.
Agarwal was found guilty under section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code for an offence punishable under section 66(f) of the IT Act and other provisions of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), according to the ruling issued by Additional Sessions Court Judge MV Deshpande.
A sessions court judge in Nagpur, Maharashtra, sentenced Nishant Agarwal to life in prison for espionage for Pakistan on June 3 (Monday). Section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code resulted in a fine and 14 years of hard prison for him. According to medua reports, he was found guilty of crimes that fall under section 66(f) of the IT Act and other provisions of the Official Secrets Act.
Life imprisonment to ex-Brahmos engineer Nishant Agarwal for spying for Pak ISI
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Agarwal worked for four years in the technical research division of the BrahMos missile centre in Nagpurand was a systems engineer. He was also awarded the DRDO Young Scientists award. The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench granted him bail in April 2023 following his arrest in 2018.
The Russian state’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya and the Indian government’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) jointly own BrahMos Aerospace. Since the organization’s founding in 1988, Agarwal’s incident represented the first instance of espionage.
About BrahMos Aerospace
The primary industrial focus of the Indo-Russian multinational aerospace and defence company BrahMos Aerospace is on cruise missiles. It was established as a joint venture between NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russia and the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India, with its headquarters located in New Delhi, India.
The Brahmaputra in India and the Moskva in Russia are the names of two rivers that were combined to create the company’s name.
At present, the business produces BrahMos missiles that can reach a distance of 290 kilometres and reach speeds of Mach 2.8. It is currently working on the hypersonic cruise missile known as BrahMos-II.