NAGPUR: The Bombay high court has reserved its judgement on a case involving Nishant Agrawal, former award-winning BrahMos Aerospace engineer accused of espionage, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court for leaking military secrets to Pakistan. HT Image Agrawal, who worked in a missile assembly unit in Nagpur, had challenged his conviction before the Nagpur bench of …
He was young and talented and full of aspirations but Nishant Pradeepkumar Agrawal, a recipient of the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s Young Scientist award, wanted to make it big and make it fast. When a Nagpur district court slapped life imprisonment on Agrawal for spying for the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan, it came as a rude shock to many, …
The Nagpur district court on June 3 sentenced to life imprisonment former BrahMos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal under the Official Secrets Act for leaking sensitive information to the Inter-Services Intelligence, the intelligence agency of Pakistan. Deshpande said in the order Agarwal was convicted under Section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code for an offence punishable under Section 66 of the …
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, infamous for its notorious attempts of waging asymmetrical war against India, once again bit the dust as its major ‘honey-trapping’ bid was foiled in Gujarat and a man was arrested in the case. This time, an ISI was eyeing information on India’s one of the most advanced missile system, BrahMos. A Pakistani agent, posing as a girl …
