October 12, 2018:
On Thursday, Court sent BrahMos Aerospace Engineer Nishant Agrawal, who is accused of passing off sensitive information to the ISI, to Police Remand for 7 days.
Special Chief Judicial Magistrate Himanshu Dayal Srivastava passed the order on an application moved by Inspector Pankaj Awasthi of the the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police.
The custody remand period would begin on Thursday at 9 pm.
Agrawal was arrested on Monday in a Joint Operation by the Uttar Pradesh Police & their Maharashtrian counterpart at BrahMos' Wardha Road facility in Nagpur for allegedly leaking "technical information" to Pakistan.
He was flown to Lucknow From Nagpur.
The ATS on Thursday sought his custody from the Court for the purpose of interrogation.
Agarwal's Lawyer opposed the remand and pleaded that he was a Young Scientist who is being compromised as part of a "Conspiracy".
Court had said that secret & prohibited information was found from Agarwal's Laptop. It also took note of his activity on Facebook.
Agrawal was accused for being in contact with two Facebook accounts -'Neha Sharma' & 'Pooja Ranjan' who are suspected to be operated by Pakistani Intelligence Agents.
He has been booked under the Official Secrets Act.
BrahMos Aerospace is a Joint Venture between India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the 'Military Industrial Consortium' (NPO Mashinostroyenia) of Russia.
Source: PTI
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