Ex-Engineer of Brahmos Missile Project Gets Life Imprisonment for Spying for Pakistan’s ISI

Mumbai: A court in Nagpur sentenced life imprisonment to ex-Brahmos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal on charges of spying for Pakistan’s ISI.

Nishant was arrested in 2018 on charges of handing over strategic information related to the Brahmos missile to Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI.

Agrawal was a senior system engineer with Brahmos Aerospace, a joint venture between DRDO and Russia’s Military Industrial Consortium (NPO Mashinostroyenia). Brahmos is India’s supersonic cruise missile, which can be launched from land, air, sea and underwater.

Agarwal was in contact with Pakistani intelligence operatives through social media accounts of two women. These accounts, based out of Islamabad, were allegedly run by ISI agents in Pakistan.