Nagpur: Nagpur district court on Monday sentenced former BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd engineer Nishant Agarwal to life imprisonment under the Official Secrets Act on charges of spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI.
Aggarwal will also have to undergo 14 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and has also been imposed a fine of Rs 3,000.
Additional sessions court judge MV Deshpande said in the order that Agarwal was convicted under section 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for an offense punishable under section 66(f) of the IT Act and various sections of the Official Secrets Act (OSA). .
Special public prosecutor Jyoti Vajani said, "The court sentenced Agarwal to life imprisonment and 14 years of rigorous imprisonment under the Official Secrets Act and imposed a fine of Rs 3,000."
Aggarwal, who worked in the technical research section of the company's missile center in Nagpur, was arrested in 2018 in a joint operation by military intelligence and anti-terrorism squads (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The former BrahMos aerospace engineer was booked under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the stringent OSA.
He had worked at the BrahMos facility for four years and was accused of leaking sensitive technical information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Russia's Military Industrial Consortium (NPO Mashinostroyeniya).
Aggarwal was granted bail by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court last April.
Aggarwal will also have to undergo 14 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and has also been imposed a fine of Rs 3,000.
Additional sessions court judge MV Deshpande said in the order that Agarwal was convicted under section 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for an offense punishable under section 66(f) of the IT Act and various sections of the Official Secrets Act (OSA). .
Special public prosecutor Jyoti Vajani said, "The court sentenced Agarwal to life imprisonment and 14 years of rigorous imprisonment under the Official Secrets Act and imposed a fine of Rs 3,000."
Aggarwal, who worked in the technical research section of the company's missile center in Nagpur, was arrested in 2018 in a joint operation by military intelligence and anti-terrorism squads (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The former BrahMos aerospace engineer was booked under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the stringent OSA.
He had worked at the BrahMos facility for four years and was accused of leaking sensitive technical information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Russia's Military Industrial Consortium (NPO Mashinostroyeniya).
Aggarwal was granted bail by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court last April.
