Nagpur: BrahMos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agrawal, arrested on charges of espionage, was in touch with suspected Pakistani intelligence operatives through two Facebook accounts — 'Neha Sharma' and 'Pooja Ranjan' — according to Uttar Pradesh Police. UP Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATC) stated this in the court of Junior Magistrate First Class S M Joshi here on Tuesday while seeking Agrawal's transit remand for taking him to Lucknow for a detailed interrogation.
The court granted three-day transit remand to the UP ATS, Additional Public Prosecutor S J Bagde, who appeared for Maharashtra ATS, said. Agrawal was arrested Monday in a joint operation by the ATS units of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra police at BrahMos' Wardha Road facility for allegedly leaking "technical information" to Pakistan.
BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the 'Military Industrial Consortium' (NPO Mashinostroyenia) of Russia. See P7