The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court upheld Nishant Agrawal’s life sentence for espionage, rejecting his bail and suspension pleas. Agrawal was convicted for leaking sensitive BRAHMOS missile information to the ISI.
Today(on 3rd June), Ex-Brahmos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Nagpur court on Monday for spying for Pakistan’s ISI, following his arrest in 2018 for leaking Brahmos missile information. Agarwal, a senior system engineer with Brahmos Aerospace, was convicted of divulging classified data about India’s supersonic cruise missile to Pakistan’s intelligence agency.